by the beginning of 1945 , eight academic institutes resumed their work, among the first, the institute of socialist agriculturethe peat institute of the academy of sciences of the bssr. on january 1, 1946. employees there are only 27 people in it, they have already presented the first research on the mechanization of peat extraction, artificial dewatering and briquetting of peat, and expanding its use in the energy sector. such work, again, was started already in the post-war period; of course , we must pay tribute to the work of scientists of the belarusian academy of sciences, who dealt with peat issues. the peat institute, which was created in our country in 1932, carried out this work in sufficient detail to assess raw material reserves in general use peat the institute of geological sciences, which was also one of the first to be created, has fewer than 13 people on staff, but everything is subordinated to the continuation of pre-war research on the peculiarities of the tectonic structures of belarus. with negligible efforts, scientists began to practically confirm their hypotheses and implement already e