[1] The organization was formed in difficult wartime conditions with a shortage of laboratory equipment, scientific literature and a lack of office and residential premises.

[1] On March 7, 1946, the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union began a more expanded program of establishing new laboratories at the institutes of the West Siberian Branch, as well as the creation of the Sector of Physics, the Bureau of Economic Research and the Botanical Garden.

[1] By the Presidium of the AS USSR Decree of 28 August 1953, the Medical and Biological Institute was renamed the Biological Institute; the Department of Technical Physics was created on the basis of the Technical Physics Sector; but the Complex Research Permanent Establishment in Kemerovo, the North Complex Research Station and the Hydro-Galurgical Station in Kulunda were liquidated according to this Decree.

[1] Among the tasks of the research institutes of the branch were the expanding the raw material base of non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy, the creation of effective methods for the extraction of minerals, the development of the foundations for the branches of the chemical industry (organic synthesis and coal chemistry), the search for the most appropriate ways to use energy resources, the study of the flora and fauna of the West Siberia, the development of transport communications etc.

[1] The activities of the organization extended to seven regions: Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Tumen oblasts, as well as Altai and Krasnoyarsk krais.