the beginning of 1945 , eight academic institutes resumed their work. among the first were the institute of socialist agriculture and the institute of peat of the academy of sciences of the bssr . as of january 1, 1946, there were only 27 employees in it, and they already presented the first studies on the mechanization of peat extraction, artificial dehydration and briquetting of peat, expanding its use in the energy sector. again, the already begun post-war period was carried out. undoubtedly. here it is necessary to pay tribute to the work of the scientists of the belarusian academy of sciences, this is the peat institute, which was created in our country in the thirty-second year. so he carried out these works in sufficient detail on the assessment of raw materials and, in general, the use of peat by the national economy in various directions. in the institute of geological sciences, which was also created among the first in the state, there are even less than 13 people. but everything is subordinated to the continuation of pre-war research on the features of the tectonic structures of belarus confirmation of their hypotheses of the implementation of already d