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National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Welcome to the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus!

The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NAS of Belarus, or NASB) is the highest state scientific organization of the Republic of Belarus, a country in the middle of Europe. NAS of Belarus is reported to the President of the Republic of Belarus, accountable to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus and carries out organization, realization and coordination of fundamental and applied scientific research and developments in the main directions of natural, engineering, social sciences, the humanities and arts with the purposes of scientific maintenance of economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Belarus, and also carries out, accordingly to the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" and the Statute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, some functions of a republican body of state management in the field of science.

NASB Presidium Building

The headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk

Founded in October 1928 under the name of The Belarusian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the guiding research center of Belarus, which unites the highly-skilled scientists of different specialties and dozens of research, design, scientific production and inculcation organizations. The staff of the Academy of Sciences includes about 16,350 researchers, technicians and supporting personnel. There are about 6,100 researchers, about 510 Doctors of Sciences and some 1,930 Candidates of Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D.) among them.