The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (russian: Акаде́мия медици́нских нау́к СССР) was the highest scientific and medical organization founded in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

founded in 1944. Its successor is the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences founded in 1992, and is a part of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

since 2013.

Presidents of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

* from 1944 to 1946 –

Nikolay Burdenko Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (russian: Николай Нилович Бурденко; – 11 November 1946) was a Russian Empire and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), a ...

* from 1946 to 1953 –

Nikolay Anichkov Nikolay Nikolayevich Anichkov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Ани́чков, often spelled ''Anitschkow'' in German literature) (1885, Saint Petersburg – 1964) was a prominent pathologist of Russian heritage. Anichkov first ...

* from 1953 to 1960 –

Aleksandr Bakulev Aleksandr Nikolayevich Bakulev (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ба́кулев) ( - March 31, 1967) was a Soviet surgeon, one of the founders of cardiovascular surgery in the USSR. Born in Nevenikovskaya (now in the Kirov ...

* from 1960 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1987 – Nikolay Blokhin * from 1968 to 1977 – Vladimir Timakov * from 1987 to 2006 – Valentin Pokrovsky * from 2006 to 2011 – Mikhail Davydov * from 2011 to 2013 – :ru:Дедов, Иван Иванович

Past and current members

* Alexander Gavrilenko (2004) *

Anatoly Pokrovsky Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky (russian: Анатолий Владимирович Покровский; 21 November 1930 – 2 June 2022) was a Russian vascular surgeon Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which diseases of the va ...

Andrei Snezhnevsky Andrei Snezhnevsky ( rus, Андре́й Влади́мирович Снежне́вский, p=sʲnʲɪˈʐnʲefskʲɪj; , Kostroma – 12 July 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet psychiatrist whose name was lent to the unbridled broadening of the diagno ...

References

Russian National Academies National academies of sciences Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Medical and health organizations based in Russia Scientific organizations established in 1944 Organizations based in the Soviet Union Science and technology in the Soviet Union Health in the Soviet Union 1944 establishments in the Soviet Union {{USSR-stub