OW THE USSR ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES WAS CREATED. MESSAGE 1. THE ROLE OF THE A. M. GORKY ALL-UNION INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND THE USSR PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF HEALTH IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

In 1932, at a meeting with leading medical scientists of the USSR on the issue of creating the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine (VIEM), which should be engaged in a comprehensive study of man and the implementation of the obtained results in practical health care for effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) Stalin I. V. raised the question of the possibility of creating the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences instead of VIEM. However, medical scientists considered that it was too early to create the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences at that time and that it was first necessary to learn how to work comprehensively within the framework of the multidisciplinary VIEM. Stalin's proposal was supported and, created in 1932 in Leningrad with a branch in Moscow, VIEM began to conduct extensive scientific research. In 1934, the main core of VIEM was relocated to Moscow, and the Leningrad part received the status of a branch. However, VIEM failed to establish close ties with practical healthcare, which led to the development of work on the creation of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences using, in particular, the VIEM database. This work was intensified during the Great Patriotic War. The issues of organizing the  USSR  Academy  of  Medical  Sciences  were  considered  at  meetings of the Scientific Medical Council of the USSR People's Commissariat of Health (UMS). A special Commission was created for these purposes. The following took an active part in the work on organizing the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences: USSR People's Commissar of Health Miterev G. A., Deputy People's Commissar of Health of the USSR, who supervised science, professor-physiologist Parin V. V., Chairman of the UMS, Chief Surgeon of the Red Army, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, neurosurgeon Burdenko N. N., Director of VIEM, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, physiologist, neurologist and neurosurgeon Grashchenkov N. I. and others.

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