Selected Aspects of Awarding Academic Degrees as an Element of Scientific Attestation

Abstract

The article discusses certain aspects of the certification of scientific personnel, in particular, the features of awarding academic degrees at a serious level of development of Russian legislation and in the presence of a retrospective. Without claiming to study the coverage of the entire problem of the process of awarding scientific degrees, and, moreover, the entire process of scientific certification, the author aims to draw attention to some features of the development of the system of awarding scientific degrees in Russia in almost all cases of their occurrence from the 18th century to the present.