USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (Russian: Акаде́мия медици́нских нау́к СССР) was the highest scientific and medical organization founded in the Soviet Union founded in 1944.^[1] Its successor is the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences founded in 1992,^[2] and is a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences 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
• 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)^[3]
• Anatoly Pokrovsky
• Andrei Snezhnevsky