On the splitting of groups of central group extensions

It is proved that if G and V are abelian groups, then the group Ext(G, V) of all abelian extensions of the group V with the aid of the group G is extracted by the direct component in the group Opext(G, V) of all central extensions of V with the aid of G.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 197–200, August, 1969.