[The constituent session of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. The third day (December 22 1944)].

The article considers the third day of the Constituent Session of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (the USSR AMS) held on December 22, 1944. In the beginning, the Presidium of the Academy was elected. After the elections, the full members of the AMS - representatives of various medical specialties spoke. Each of them presented one's vision of development of medicine. Among speakers were A. V. Palladin, V. P. Osipov, M. S. Malinovsky, F. G. Krotkov, V. F. Zelenin, N. I. Grashchenkov, V. P. Filatov, Ya. O. Parnas, V. V. Parin, P. G. Sergiev and N. N. Burdenko. The most informative reports on the tasks of development of the AMS in the forthcoming future were made by V. V. Parin and N. N. Burdenko. The main content of this development was supposed to support synthesis of applied and fundamental knowledge in the AMS and the connection of scientific achievements and without practice. The process of establishment of the USSR AMS lasted exactly 2 years and was finalized this very day. The seventy-year history of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences the RAMS has begun.

[The constituent session of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. The first day (December 20, 1944)].

The article describes and analyzes the first day of the Constituent Session of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences held on December 20, 1944. During this meeting the People's Commissar of Health of the USSR, G. A. Miterev, academicians A. I. Abrikosov and L. A. Orbeli, the full member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences S. S. Yudin made their speeches devoted to organizational tasks facing the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences during the war and post-war time, as well as to questions of morphology and physiology that require priority attention. The Yudin's report was emotional, patriotic and reflected the achievements of Soviet surgery in the mid-twentieth century. Analysis of the reports demonstrated that they contained many provisions that influenced the further development of medicine and public health in the USSR.

[The Organization of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences: Stage I. The Decree of the USSR Council of People's Commissars "On Establishment of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences" (June 30, 1944)].

The activities of the Secretariat of K. E. Voroshilov, the Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of People's Commissars during June 1944 resulted in adoption of the Charter of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, lists of academic research institutes, lists of candidates to full and honorary members of the Academy and other documents (the USSR Council of People's Commissars Decree # 797 of June 30 1944). The Charter had such peculiarities as electiveness of the top official of the Academy by the General Meeting under organizational and financial control of the USSR Council of People's Commissars. The organized Academy consisted on 60% of the USSR central research institutes and only on 40% of theoretical and clinical departments of the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine. At that, out of 38 institutes that the USSR Council of People's Commissars expected to re-subordinate to the Academy, only 25 were included into final choice basically at the expense of reduction of number of clinical institutes. The final version of the list of candidates to full members of the Academy included 56 names instead of 80 and the list of honorary members increased from 10 to 18. At relatively equal scientific deserts preference was given to personalities aged of 50-70 years (90,5%), Russians by nationality (80%), males (97%), residing in the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic (88%). The average age of candidates was 61 year, candidates to honorary academicians - 74 years, and 74% 0f candidates to members of Academy were unaffiliated. The leading role in organization of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences at the first stage, including its adoption played K. E. Voroshilov who was involved both in organization, development and reorganization of the A. M. Gorky All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine. in 1932-1944 and preparation, including endorsement and editing of all package on needed documents to be presented at the meetings of the Politburo of the Central Committee of C. P.S. U.(B.) of June 29 1944 and the USSR Council of People's Commissars of June 30 1944.