POPULARIZATION OF SCIENCE IN THE USSR

Abstract
When our chairman suggested to me today that I give this talk, I said definitely not for two reasons. First, I am not at all a specialist in popularizing science and second, I have not prepared anything as has my bright colleague who gave us so nice a talk, I have no statistical material, figures and so on. But our chairman told me that there were no specialists in this subject. As to the second objection, my lack of statistical material, this was removed by saying that, nowadays, it is customary that high energy physics reports have no statistical basis and further more that high energy physics has become more and more a qualitative science. This encouraged me and here I am. Now, although I am representing Dubna, I shall speak only about the Soviet Union since Dubna is an international organization and it is difficult for me to speak for the members from other countries.