text: When determining the scope of expenditures for scientific­ research work. It Is considered that the USSR ministries and departments and those In the union republics finance primarily scientific research associated with the fulfilment of 371 governmental assignments, -scientific-technical programs. and the solution of problems In natural and social sciences, as wei I as works of major significance for development of the branch. Scientific-technical programs and problems In natural and social sciences are financed by the ministries and departments that are stated In the programs as financing organizations. Expenditures for scientific-research work, envisaged by the scientific-technical programs and the pr_oblems In natural and social sciences, are stated In a separate line In the finance plan. Organizations, comprising beside projecting. designing and technological departments, also a scientific-research department. referred to In the established order as a scientific organizations, have In their plan of financing scientific­ research work also a scope of expenditures that relate only to the scientific-research work carried out by the stated department. The sources for financing scientific-research and experimental-designing work In the organizations are as follows: -at locations of union, republican and local budgets. Only works of theoretical character and those of general-union significance are financed by allocations from the state budget; -means from the single fund for the development of science and technology (fund for scl~ntlflc research) formed In the establIshed order; -means considered In the construction-assembly work, expendItures, and In -the ministries and departments and prime cost of Industrial products, In the plans of operating distribution costs of the USSR those of the union republ lcs; -receipts to the accounts of organizations for scientific­ research work performed by economic contracts (lntermlnlstertal orders), concluded on the basts of the Standard Instruction for concluding economic contracts and Issuing lntermlnlsterlal orders for scientific-research, experimental-designing and technological work. Works, performed by organizations In accordance with 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the financing of scientific research and experimental-designing work in various organizations, with a focus on the USSR ministries and departments. The text mentions scientific-technical programs, natural and social sciences, and the development of branches, which suggests that the text is related to the development of science and technology.