the first director was the historian professor vsevolod ignatovsky. on the opening day of the academy of sciences, the staff numbered 128 people, of which 87 scientific employees, by the beginning of 1941 about 750 people worked here, the structure then included 12 research institutions, of which nine were institutes. today the national academy of sciences is a unique scientific cluster of experiments and developments, a harmonious synthesis of theory and practice. the organization of the academy of sciences, as a research and production corporation, is our know-how, belarusian know-how, nowhere in the world... there is no such academy of sciences, such a format. the belarusian academy of sciences is not a club of scientists, this is not some kind of gathering, philosophizing on general topics is not a public organization, it is precisely a research and production corporation, where the principle of a complete chain from idea to final product is implemented. in 1997, in accordance with the decree of the president of the republic of belarus, the academ

historian headed the belarusian academy of sciences vsevolod ignatovsky. in 1941, it was already a leading research center, 12 divisions, including nine institutes and 750 employees, but the rapid development was stopped by the great patriotic laboratory library. scientific equipment was burned and looted by the nazis. after the liberation of minsk, in less than a year by the beginning of 1945 , eight academic institutes resumed their work. and by the beginning of the 51st century , the structure of the academy of sciences will already have almost 30 research institutions. the main guideline for scientists at that time was queries national economy. research and training of specialists with the support of the government of belarus and the us. the ussr, and then the ninety-first collapse of the soviet union and the difficult, but ultimately successful path of science to sovereign belarus. in 1997, president alexander lukashenko signed decree number 281. the academy of sciences became national and acquired the status of the country's highest state scientific