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(Tirle in Russian - 'Mezhdunarodnye nauchnye svyazi AN USSR s nauchnymi uchrezhdeniyami i tsentrami stran s vysokim nauchno-tekhnicheskim potentsialom (70-ye gody XX st.)'). In 70s of 20th C. the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR made intensive efforts to set up international scientific relations, in line with the state S&T cooperation plans approved by the Academy authorities. Main forms of international relations were joint elaboration of scientific problems in the framework of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, missions abroad to carry out R&D projects, study of advanced experience of countries with high science & technology potential, participation in international activities, elaborating license agreements etc. Much attention was given to organization of researchers' long-term missions for work on selected narrow problems. Detailed records on international cooperation of Academy institutes (Institute for Cybernetics, Paton Institute for Electric Welding, Institute for Physics of Sea Waters, Astronomical Observatory, Institute for Physiology, Institute for Nuclear Research, Institute for Problems of Strength), and records of Ukrainian scientists from the Academy, engaged in international cooperation are mentioned. Apart from this, Ukrainian scientists participated in international scientific organizations (60 scientists from the Academy having full membership in the middle of 70s). The Department for International Relations was established within the Academy in 1979, as a step to improve planning and organization of international cooperation, and to enhance the efficiency of international undertakings at institution and Academy level.