Applied ergonomics in the USSR.
The article describes historical premises of ergonomics development in the USSR, the present state and main direction of applied ergonomics, and its effective data. The new stage of ergonomics development in the USSR connected with the organization of scientific and technological cooperation in the field of ergonomics between the countries that are members of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid is discussed. The scientific problems of ergonomics, to which a great number of studies are devoted in the USSR, are hardly touched in the article.