Personal Composition of Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences – RAS in the Siberian Branch: Election as Recognition (1958–2007)

The creation of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences on May 18, 1957 as the first regional branch in its composition was a revolutionary step that made it possible to implement a real decomposition in the placement of academic scientific potential.Initially, the leadership of the SВ managed to achieve an important preferencea quota for election to membership in the Academy of Sciences for vacancies in the Siberian Branch.This principle made it possible, after some time, to increase the share of members of the regional branch (full members and corresponding members) among the members of the country's Academy of Sciences to 10 %.Over the half-century period of its existence, the department has gained more than 280 members.In the publication, based on the generated database, when processing the created standard biograms of these scientists, a historical and statistical analysis was carried out, which made it possible to determine the main characteristics of the mechanism for replenishing members of the Branch in 1958-2007.The identification of two phases in it ("passionary" and "evolutionary") is substantiated, during which the initially existing variety of external and internal sources of replenishment of members of the Branch was gradually replaced by sources of elite reproduction on its own personnel basis.This entailed a certain decrease in the vertical career mobility of the regional scientific elite.