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 nationa ...

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 * from 1946 to 1953 – Nikolay Anichkov * from 1953 to 1960 – Aleksandr Bakulev * from 1960 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1987 – Nikolay Blokhin * from 1968 to 1977 –

Vladimir Timakov Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukra ...

* 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 * Andrei Snezhnevsky

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