本文的目的是要简略地说明自然生产力研究委员会及其后继机关——苏联科学院生产力研究委员会在它们相继存在的40年中所进行的各种活动。科学院对国家自然资源的研究,从罗蒙诺索夫时代起便已开始了。18世纪末科学院的几个赫赫有名的考察队——巴拉斯、格麦林叔侄、祖耶夫、克拉含宁尼科夫等考察队——的目的,正是为了研究国家的自然财富。但是所有这一 The purpose of this paper is to give a brief account of the various activities that the Research Committee for Natural Productivity and its successor, the Productivity Research Council of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, conducted in the 40 years that followed them. The Academy of Sciences on the national natural resources research, from Lomonosov era has already begun. In the late eighteenth century several well-known expeditions of the Academy of Sciences, such as the expeditions of Paras, Gmelin, Zuyev and Kratonnikov, were aimed at studying the country’s natural wealth. But all this