60 YEARS OF THE ESTONIAN ENERGY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Ü. RUDI
Estonian Energy Research Institute
Tallinn, Estonia
| The Estonian Energy Research Institute has passed a complicated way of development during the 60 years of its activities. Different political and scientific factors have excised their impact on the development at different times. The beginning of the scientific activities dates back to the times when the first research institute outside universities was established as the Natural Resources Research Institute by the decree of the Head of the State Konstantin Päts in 1937 with the objective to develop applied research work in the field of the implementation of domestic mineral resources. In spite of several changes in the name and organisational and research structure of the Institute throughout the years of development, the research work has mainly been centred on the most important Estonian mineral resource - Estonian oil shale. Scientists of the Institute have given their significant share to the emergence and development of the oil shale power engineering, oil shale chemistry, and shale oil industry in Estonia. |