for successful completion of their dissertation work and Its subsequent defense. Practice has revealed the efficiency of this measure. Besides. the Soviet State grants a right for paid 3-6 month creative hoi !days for teaching personnel of the higher educational Institutions and scientific workers· of research organizations for successful completion of their dissertations. The higher educational establishments also give paid creative holidays (up to 6 months) for work over teaching manuals and Important scientific monographs. Number of Post-graduates : During the fifty years of Its existence the USSR Higher Certification Commission certified 56.000 doctors of science and about 600,000 candidates of science. It Is necessary to stress the significant part of the USSR Higher Certification Commission tn forming the scientific potential of our state, In the training of scientific and sclentlflf-pedagoglgal personnel q u a 1 i f 1 cat I on , as we I I as I n e ff I c re n t u t I II za t Ion of of dissertation work in the national economy of the final certification by the Commission. of ·h lghest the results USSR after A network of specialized training-scientific organizations and Institutes have been set up with the aim of raising the skill of leaders, workers and specialists of planning organs, end scien­tific and scl~ntlflc-pedagoglcal personnel. These Include Acade•Y of Social Science , Academy of Nation-al "Economy, Higher Econ0111.c Courses, and other Institutes and faculties for Improvement of skIlls. Work on probation Is practised ·for teachers. assistant professors and professors, lecturing on special subJects •• at advanced Industrial enterprises. leading higher educational institutions and academic scientific-research Institutes. Consequently, alI these support the training and graduation of hundreds of thousands of high-skilled Soviet specialists for aft the branches of the national economy In the country. as well 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the Soviet Union's system for supporting the development of scientific and pedagogical personnel, including the granting of creative holidays, specialized training, and certification. It highlights the importance of this system in forming the scientific potential of the state and training high-skilled specialists for various branches of the national economy.

**Category**
Education, Science and technology