The article provides an essay on scientific cooperation between the two countries since the post-war reconstruction period; it shows how the researchers tried to exclude the ideologically distorted analysis of history of bilateral relations and to identify the so-called «white spots». The article studies scientific and practical problems, jointly discussed in 2000-s, as well as joint publications of the last 20 years. It also emphasizes the dramatic reduction of funding as an obstacle for further development of joint scientific research.

Postwar reconstruction and the Soviet-Polish scientific cooperation, the Commission of historians of Russia and Poland on studying complex issues of bilateral relations; the identification of «white spots» in relationship, joint publications of the last 20 years, the lack of funding as an obstacle for further cooperation.