financed by allocations from the state budget for operating expenditures for exploration and topographical work. Scientific-research, experimental-designing and technologi­ cal works and measures, associated with the development and mastering of new technologies, are financed by the single fund for the development of science and technology at ministries (departments), wherein scientific-research, designing, proJect­ designing and technologtcal organizations, ent•rprlses, produc­ tion and scientific production associations have been transferred to the new system of planning, financing a~d economic stimulation of work on new technologies. The maJor sources of financing expenditures for scientific­ research work are the allocations from the state budget and the means proper of the USSR ministries and departments: the single fund for the development of science and techno.logy. The ~!locations from the state budget have reduced almost two times during the last two decades as compared with the total expenditures for scientific-research work. The reductton of the part of the state budget In the total expenditures for science Is explained by the expansion of direct 373 self-supporting ties of the scientific organizations Industry and the transfer of Industrial mlnlstlres to system of planning, financing and economic stimulation tech~,ologles. with the of the new new All branch scientific-research organizations (except the scientific-research organizations of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Academies of Sciences of the union republics, the scientific organizations fo the agricultural organs, In the area of health care~ and some others) and designing organizations have been transferred In 1961 to the self-supporting system. The economic basis of these organizations are the fixed and current capital, the system of cost evaluation of work carried out, the system of advance payments by the customer for the expenditures of the executors of contractual works, material sanctions for unsatisfactory experimental-designing work._ Scientific-research organizations of the USSR Academy of 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the financing of scientific research and technology development in the Soviet Union. It mentions the allocation of funds from the state budget and the single fund for the development of science and technology, as well as the transfer of scientific organizations to a self-supporting system. This suggests that the text is related to the development and application of new technologies, which is a key aspect of economic development.

**Category**
Science and technology, Economic development