A NEW FACE OF RUSSIAN NAUKOGRADS: FROM SCIENCE TO PRACTICE THROUGH EDUCATION AND CULTURE
The work is devoted to the problem of transformation of science cities (naukograds) into modern compact scientific and educational centers for the training of highly qualified personnel for the new Russian economy. The history, problems and achievements of such reorganization are considered on the example of 25 years of work of the Pushchino State Natural Science Institute (PushchGENI) in the Pushchino science city. It is shown that the educational format “master’s degree programme - graduate school” is the most rational in the conditions of science cities of Russia for the training of highly qualified specialists for scientific institutes, universities and innovative enterprises of Russia. Over the years of PushchGENI, 1000 masters of biology, mathematics and physics were trained, more than 50% of which work in institutes of science city of Pushchino. Scenarios of such development for other science cities of Russia are proposed, with the involvement of the society of science cities for the optimization of such a transformation.