Federalnaya Gazeta № 01 (132), January 2008 From the report «Between Science and Life is Knowledge»

Opening address by Academician S.I. Vavilov at the opening of the constituent assembly members of the All-Union Society for the dissemination of political and scientific knowledge. Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, July 7, 1947. Comrades, we have gathered today within the walls of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, which has hosted so many historic conventions and meetings over the…