Vysshii uchenyi sovet ( a few questions about Soviet scientific hierarchy)

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

I’m struggling a little with the correct terms in a chapter from Vasily
Grossman’s VSE TECHET.  It is the early 1950s.  Nikolay Andreyevich is a
fairly talented biologist, working in a research institute.

 Николай   Андреевич  стал   старшим  научным  сотрудником  в  знаменитом
научно-исследовательском   институте,   напечатал   десятки  работ,  защитил
докторскую  диссертацию.
What do people think of ‘Nikolay Andreyevich had gone on to take up a (??)
senior post at a famous research institute...’?

 Мандельштама, возглавлявшего научную часть института, сделали сотрудником
в  том  же  отделе,  где работал Николай Андреевич.
Here I have: ‘Mandelstam, who had been the head of the research (??nauchnuyu
chast’ instituta) section, was demoted to a junior post in the same section
as Nikolay Andreyevich.
(The background here is that of growing antisemitism.  It is before Stalin’s
death.)

Николай  Андреевич был выдвинут в Высший Ученый совет, а вскоре президиум
Академии утвердил его научным руководителем Института.
‘Vyshii uchenyi sovet’ is my biggest problem.  Am not sure whether this
‘sovet’ is part of the institute itself or – more likely – part of some
organization like the Academy of Sciences. Probably ‘Higher Scientific
Council’ - but I would like to have a clearer idea of just what this body
is!

Thanks in advance!

R.

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