USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
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The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences is the highest scientific and medical organization founded in the Soviet Union
in 1944.
Its successor is the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences founded in 1992.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
in 1944.
Its successor is the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences founded in 1992.
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 BakulevAleksandr BakulevAleksandr Nikolayevich Bakulev was a Soviet surgeon, one of the founders of cardiovascular surgery in the USSR.Born in Nevenikovskaya into a peasant family which belonged to the old Vyatka clan of Bakulevs, Bakulev attended the medical faculty of Saratov University after graduating from high...
- 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 the present day – Mikhail Davydov.