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 represented the first research, and the mechanization of peat extraction , artificial dehydration and briquetting of peat, the expansion of its use in the energy sector . such work, again, was verified, begun already in the post-war period, of course. here we must pay tribute. we were engaged in the work of 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 to assess the raw reserves and, in general, the use of peat in the national economy, in various directions. in the institute of geological sciences, which was also created among the first in the state, and even less than 13 people, but everything is subordinated to the continuation of pre-war research on the features of tectonic structures, belarusian scientists began to practically confirm their hypothesis of