6 June. The reconstruction of the Lyceum was finished; the reconstruction was based on the research work of the Lyceum keeper M.P. Rudensky and the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky. Restoration and building works were produced by the Pushkin Repair-Building Company.

22 November. A branch of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Science on the Non-chernozem zone of RSFSR was opened in the house no. 32 in Sofiysky Boulevard. The branch was headed by eminent scientists, academicians L.K. Ernst (from 1974 untill 1978), V.M. Kryazhkov (from 1978 untill 1983), G.V. Blagoveshchensky (from 1983 untill 1985), V.G. Mineyev (from 1985 untill 1988), N.G. Dmitriyev (from 1988 untill 1996). Since 2001 the North-Western department was headed by the academicians I.Ye. Yankovsky and I.A. Tikhonovich. Scientific and systematic centres of the Non-chernozem zone departments consolidate 31 research plots where 1600 research workers including 15 academicians, 12 members of the Academy, 129 Doctors of Science and 513 Bachelors of Science. Blagoveshchensky, G.V.
Dmitriyev, Nikolay Grigoryevich
Ernst, Lev Konstantinovich
Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich
Kryazhkov, Valentin Mitrofanovich
Mineyev, Vasily Grigoryevich
Rudenskaya Marina Petrovna
Tikhonovich, Igor Anatolyevich
Yankovsky, Ivan Yevstafyevich
Sofiisky Boulevard/Pushkin, town