Keyword: «scientific expeditions»

Industrialization of the USSR in the late 1920s and 1930s required a significant expansion of the fuel and mineral resource base for the development of heavy industry. In order to increase the natural resource potential and carry out scientific exploration work, the Council for the Study of Productive Forces was created under the Academy of Sciences in 1930. In the mid-1930s, the Council organized a number of expeditions on the territory of the Kazakh SSR to study the region's natural resources and identify opportunities for settling the territories, which resulted in the discovery of new mineral deposits and the preparation of plans for agrotechnical measures for the development of agriculture.