By the decision of the Committee for the Management of Scientists and Educational Institutions under the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on November 15, 1928, the Scientific Research Institute of Economics at the Central Asian State University was established on the basis of the merger of the Economic Research Bureau of SAGU and the Research Bureau at the Agricultural Faculty of SASU, which existed since 1921
According to the regulations, the Institute of Economics had the following goals: to study the national economy of Central Asia, to develop questions of research methodology in the peculiar conditions of Central Asia, to study the issues put forward by economic plans, to train qualified economists.
On June 18, 1930, by the decision of the Committee for managing scientists with educational institutions at the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, the Institute of Economics at SAGU was transferred to the Sredazgosplan and renamed the Institute of Economic Research. It was liquidated by the order of the Central Asian Economic Council of October 13, 1934.
Minutes of meetings of Sredazekoso and Sredazgosplan, meetings of the plenum and agricultural sections of Sredazgosplan, production and technical meetings of the institute.
Instructions and circular orders for research work, explanatory note to the EEI work plan (1932).
National Economic Plan of Central Asia (1926); five-year plans for the development of individual branches of industry and agriculture in the republics of Central Asia (1928-1932); market surveys of the national economy of Central Asia (1927-1928).
Verbatim records of the All-Union Karamazar Congress on non-ferrous metals (1934) and the Central Asian Energy Congress (1931).
Numerical indicators of the implementation of the first five-year plan for the construction of railways in Central Asia; scientific work on the road business; information about the handicraft industry, leather, pottery and carpet production.
Work programs for agricultural zoning of the Central Asian republics; instructions for drawing up production and financial plans on collective farms, for surveying agronomic institutions and machine farms in Central Asia; economic characteristics of the cotton and nomadic regions of Central Asia; tables of cotton yields in Central Asia (1926-1927); information on the gross output of animal husbandry in the republics of Central Asia (1924).
Economic records on the use of land and water resources of the Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya basins, irrigation systems, statistical tables on the irrigation of the Aral region.
Note: In the materials of the fund there are single cases of predecessor institutions for 1921-1927.
