ABSTRACT
The USSR science and mathematics education specialists are found in the laboratories of Research Institute and among the countrywide network of researchers which it coordinates. The Soviet child's formal study of science begins with nature study, which is separated from the reading program as an independent subject after the first year of school. The latter are among the leaders of the science interest clubs, whose members include young children as well as secondary school students and whose activities range from stargazing to Arctic scientific expeditions. School legislation in the USSR provides for a "basically uniform content and level of general education on the entire territory of the USSR, with all-round consideration for the national features of the population in the Union Republics." One consequence of the application of the polytechnical principle to the design of the Soviet school curriculum is the attention given to physics.
