Tomsk Committee of Scientists during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

The article examines public forms of science organization and scientific research development during the Great Patriotic War on the example of Tomsk Scientists' Committee. Such public organizations were in charge of mobilizing scientists' efforts, aimed at helping the war front, as well as at the coordination of the work of scientific and educational institutions in cooperation with the Communist Party organizations and industrial enterprises of Siberia. Professors of Tomsk universities and institutions of higher education were the key members of Tomsk Scientists' Committee. Establishment of the first university in Tomsk, as well as in the Asian part of Russia in 1870 laid the foundation for scientific and educational sector development.