Title of the article

Legal Regime of the State System of Scientific Attestation: Search for Historical Foundations

 Authors 

 Olga V. Romanovskaya —  Head, Department of State and Legal Subjects, Institute of Law, Penza State University, Doctor of Law, Professor, 40 Krasnaya Street, Penza, 440026, Russia, vlad93@sura.ru

 Category 

LEGAL POLICY OF THE STATE: THEORY, HISTORY, PRACTICE

Year,.Volume, Number 

2021, Vol. 9, № 2 (34)

 Pages 

24-33

 Article type 

Original article

 Index UDK 

34.096

 DOI 

10.21685/2307-9525-2021-9-2-3

 Abstract 

The article analyzes the origin of the system of state certification of scientific personnel. The first legal acts that determined the procedure for awarding academic degrees and academic titles in the Russian Empire are highlighted. Statistics on academic degrees for the period 1794-1917 are presented. The flaws that were identified by contemporaries in the process of defending dissertation re-search are systematized. Historical examples of unscrupulous acquisition of aca-demic degrees are given. Attention is paid to the discussion, the author of which was the well-known legal scholar G.F. Shershenevich. The first acts of the Soviet state, aimed at transforming the system of training scientific personnel, are con-sidered, which indicate the experience of the Institute of Red Professors. It is shown that the process of special training of a scientist within the framework of graduate school had its own objective grounds, which led to its reanimation in Soviet Russia. The documents of the USSR of the 30-50s of the last century, devoted to the procedure for awarding academic degrees, are also analyzed.

 Keywords 

certification, scientific personnel, state regulation, defence, dissertation, scientific specialty

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Romanovskaya O.V. Legal Regime of the State System of Scientific Attestation: Search for Historical Foundations. Electronic scientific journal «Science. Society. State», 2021, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 24-33, available at: http://esj.pnzgu.ru. DOI: 10.21685/2307-9525-2021-9-2-3. (In Russian).