List of Scientific Research Institutes of the USSR (Medicine and Related Fields)

By S. Dubrovinsky · Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology

Also known as: Soviet Medical Research Institutes, USSR Medical Research Institutions, Soviet Scientific Medical Institutes

Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.

Summary

This article provides a comprehensive list of Soviet medical and biological research institutes established between 1916-1929, detailing their organizational structure, departments, and publications. The institutes cover various medical specialties including microbiology, epidemiology, bacteriology, physiology, and experimental medicine.

Encyclopedia article (1928–1936)

LIST OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF THE USSR (MEDICINE AND RELATED FIELDS). * I. Biological. ' Bacteriological Institute named after Pasteur of the People's Commissariat of Health, Leningrad, 1924. Departments: 1. Bacteriological. 2. Serum. 3. Vaccination. 4. Epidemiological. Laboratories: a) research, b) experimental, c) statistical-epidemiological. 5. Parasitological with diagnostic division. 6. Biochemical. Publishes 'Microbiological Journal' since 1925 (monthly). Central Bacteriological Institute of the State People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1919. In 1891-1917 existed as 'Chemical-Bacteriological Institute of Dr. Blumenthal'. Divisions: 1. Sera and vaccines. 2. Diagnostic and serological. 3. Biochemical. 4. Microbiological. 5. Courses for advanced training of physicians in laboratory technique. Museum of living cultures. * Not all institutes located at universities and institutes for advanced training of physicians are included in this list (see Medical education). Sanitary-bacteriological institutes conducting scientific-practical work and having local significance - see Bacteriology. Bacteriological Institute of the State People's Commissariat of Health of the Georgian SSR (renamed from the Union of Cities Laboratory), Tiflis, 19.8. Divisions: 1. Serum-vaccination. 2. Protozoan. 3. Serological. 4. Hematological. 5. Chemical. Laboratory of Experimental Biology (located at the Communist University named after Sverdlov), Main Science Directorate of the RSFSR, Moscow, 1926. Departments: Physiology of endocrine glands, conditioned reflexes and digestion. Institute of Experimental Biology of the People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1920.* Divisions: 1. Physico-chemical. 2. Cytological. 3. Physiological. 4. Experimental surgery. 5. Zoopsychology. 6. Hydrobiology. 7. Experimental morphology and tissue culture. 8. Genetics and biometry (stations opened in the vicinity of Moscow). 9. Eugenics and anthropology. Publishes 'Progress of Experimental Biology' since 1922; 'Journal of Experimental Biology' since 1925. Institute of Biological Physics of the People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1918. Divisions: 1. General biophysics. 2. Molecular physics. 3. Physiological optics. 4. Physiological acoustics. 5. Physical optics. 6. Electrophysiology. 7. Geophysics. Institute of Biological Chemistry named after A. N. Bach of the People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1921.* Divisions: 1. Enzymology. 2. Study of intermediate metabolism. 3. Biochemical methodology. Biochemical Institute of the Ukrainian Main Science Directorate, Kharkov, 1925. 1. Division on questions of metabolism, etc. 2. Scientific-educational sector. Publishes annual collection 'NauchBi notes of the Ukrainian Biochemical Institute'. Institute of Infectious Diseases named after Mechnikov of the Moscow Regional Department of Health, Moscow, 1919. Departments: 1. Epidemiological. 2. Serum-vaccination. 3. Pathoanatomical. 4. Parasitological. 5. Biochemical. 6. Anti-rabies (Pasteur station). 7. Courses for physicians. Medico-Biological Research Institute of the Main Science Directorate, Moscow, 1924. Departments: 1. Physiological. 2. Pathological. 3. Biological. 4. Clinical with subsection of endocrinology. 5. Genetics and human constitution. 6. Cabinet of history and methodology of medicine. Publishes works. Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene II. Azerbaijani named after Musabekov of the People's Commissariat of Health of the ASSR, Baku, 1924. Divisions: 1. Serum-vaccination. 2. Bacteriological. 3. Tropical. 4. Pasteur. 5. Chemical. 6. Pathoanatomical. Publishes works. Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology of the State Regional Department of Health of the southeast USSR, Saratov, 1918. Since 1923 the Institute has been the anti-plague center of the People's Commissariat of Health. Divisions: 1. Plague with 14 laboratories. 2. Protozoological. 3. Bacteriological. 4. Serum-vaccination. 5. Smallpox. 6. Epidemiological. 7. Sanitary-hygienic. 8. Chemical. 9. Anti-rabies. 10. Museum. Courses for physicians in microbiology and special courses in plague. Publishes 'Bulletin of Microbiology and Epidemiology' since 192Z. Microbiological Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow 1921.* Divisions: 1. Medical microbiology. 2. Experimental epidemiology. 3. Immunology. 4. Biocolloids. 5. Filterable viruses. 6. For the study of bacteriology. 7. Histology. Microbiological Research Institute of the Main Science Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Education, Moscow, 1929. Departments: 1. General microbiology. 2. Medical bacteriology. 3. Immunobiology. 4. Medical protozoology. 5. Chemical-synthetic. Publishes works. Microbiological Institute of the State People's Commissariat of Health (reorganized from the Bacteriological Laboratory of the All-Russian Union of Cities), Rostov-on-Don, 1916. Divisions: 1. Epidemiological. 2. Sanitary-chemical. 3. Serum. 4. Vaccination-smallpox. 5. Pasteur. 6. Epizootological. 7. Protistological. 8. Plague with 3 plague laboratories. Laboratories: a) serological, b) for the study of tuberculosis. Publishes 'News of the State Microbiological Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health in Rostov-on-Don' since 1928 in separate issues. Microbiological and Epidemiological Research Institute of the Ukrainian Main Science Directorate, Kiev, * Part of the State Scientific Institute of Waterborne Health named after L. Pasteur (GINZ) of the People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1920. United by the Scientific Council and Board. Consists of seven independent institutes: 1. Experimental biology. 2. Biological chemistry named after A. N. Bach. 3. Microbiological. 4. Experimental therapy and control of sera and vaccines named after L. A. Tarashevich. 5. Sanitary-hygienic. 6. Tropical. 7. Institute of nutrition. Publishes 'Journal of Experimental Medicine and Biology' since 1925. 1928: 1. Microbiological with divisions: a) general microbiology, b) medical microbiology. 2. Epidemiological with a) laboratory of experimental epidemiology, b) department of social epidemiology. 3. Patho-immunological with laboratories: a) pathophysiological, b) pathohistological, c) biochemical. Publishes works. Central Smallpox Institute, Moscow, 1920. Located 30 versts from Moscow (station Perkushkovo, M. Belarusian railway). Divisions: 1. Smallpox. 2. Bacteriological. ' Pathoanatomical Institute of the Ukrainian Main Science Directorate, Kharkov. Divisions: 1. Thanatological. 2. Oncological. At the Institute there is the Society of Ukrainian Pathologists with Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk branches. Publishes 'Ukrainsky medichny arkhiv' since 1927. Institute of Nutrition (until 1928 - 'Institute of Physiology of Nutrition') of the People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1920. * Since 1916 existed as a laboratory of the Moscow Scientific Society. Divisions: 1. General chemical for the study of general metabolism. 2. For the study of gas exchange and energy exchange. 3. For the study of unilateral feeding and artificial feeding. 4. Clinical - for conducting experiments on humans regarding the assimilation of foodstuffs and food mixtures. 5. Operational. 6. Anatomical-histological. 7. Social-hygienic. Sanitary-bacteriological Institute of the State Belarusian, People's Commissariat of Health of the BSSR, Minsk, 1924. Divisions: 1. Serum-vaccination. 2. Bacteriological. 3. Pasteur. 4. Smallpox. 5. Serodiagnostic. 6. Sanitary-hygienic. 7. Forensic medical. 8. Clinical diagnostics. First Ukrainian Sanitary-bacteriological Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health, Kharkov, 1920. Exists since 1887, previously - under the name 'Bacteriological Institute of the Kharkov Medical Society'. Departments: 1. Experimental. 2. Physico-chemical. 3. Sanitary-hygienic. 4. Serum. 5. Vaccination. 6. Epidemiological. 7. Pasteur. 8. Pedagogical. Tropical Institute of the State People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1920.* Divisions: 1. Protozoological. 2. Medical entomology with hydrobiological detachment. 3. Medical helminthology. 4. Chemotherapy. 5. Medical-veterinary. 6. Toxicological. 7. Leprosy. 8. Clinical. 9. Museum. Publishes 'Russian Journal of Tropical Medicine' since 1923. Physiological Research Institute of the Main Science Directorate of the RSFSR, Moscow, 1929. Departments: 1. Biophysical. 2. Biochemical. 3. Morphological. Institute of Experimental Medicine of the State (EKSME) of the People's Commissariat of Health, Leningrad, 1890. Departments: 1. Physiology. 2. Physico-physiology. 3. Biochemistry. 4. General microbiology. 5. Medical microbiology with divisions: a) protistological, b) parasitological, c) museum of living cultures. 6. Pathological anatomy. 7. Experimental pathology. 8. Comparative pathology. 9. Infectious diseases. 10. Epidemiology with epizootics division. 11. Experimental pharmacology. 12. Experimental neuropathology. 13. Anti-rabies. 14. Serum-vaccination. Publishes 'Arch. biol. nauk' since 1892. Institute of Experimental Therapy and Control of Sera and Vaccines named after L. A. Tarashevich of the People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow', 1918.* Divisions: 1. Control of vaccines and preparation of vaccine standards. 2. Control of anti-diphtheritic and anti-tetanus sera. 3. Control of anti-dysentery, anti-anthrax, etc. sera. 4. Control of smallpox detritus and anti-tuberculosis vaccine. 5. Biological and serological reactions. 6. Museum of living cultures. Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the State People's Commissariat of Health (until 1925 named 'Institute of Organotherapeutic Preparations'), Moscow, 1918. 1. Scientific-research part. Divisions: a) biochemical, b) pharmacological, c) morphological with museum attached, d) experimental. 2. Scientific-practical part: a) clinics, b) polyclinic. 3. Production part (preparation of organotherapeutic preparations). 4. Monkey nursery in Sukhumi.'

Departments are organized: 1) biological, 2) zootechnical. A monthly journal "Vestnik Endokrinologii" (Herald of Endocrinology) has been published since 1925. Publication of special brochures on individual issues of endocrinology. II. Hygienic, social-hygienic, labor, professional diseases. Institute of Labor Hygiene and Safety, Leningrad, NKT RSFSR, 1927. Departments: 1. Industrial-hygienic: a) chemical laboratory; b) physical; c) physiological; d) biological; e) psychotechnical; f) ventilation bureau: 1) ventilation laboratory, 2) department for sanitary-hygienic evaluation of ventilation systems; g) lighting bureau with laboratories: 1) light-technical, 2) eye physiology, 3) department for acceptance and evaluation of lighting installations. 2. Department of Safety Engineering: a) department for studying the causes of injuries and developing measures to combat them, b) experimental laboratory for studying the causes of injuries, c) laboratory for electrical injuries. 3. Educational sector: a) courses for upgrading the qualifications of technical and sanitary inspection, b) courses for physicians of medical posts and factories, c) People's University (evening) for labor protection. Publishes works. Institute of Labor Protection, state NKT, NKZdr., and VSNKh. The Institute was formed by merging the department of professional hygiene of the Sanitary-Hygienic Institute and the chemical and psychotechnical laboratory of the Labor Protection Department of NKT, Moscow, 1925. 1. Biological, physiological group. Laboratories: a) labor physiology, b) biophysics of labor, c) labor psychology, d) professional toxicology, e) statistical department. 2. Production-technical group: a) hygienic department, b) chemical laboratory, c) physical laboratory, d) laboratory for special clothing and protective devices, e) safety engineering department, f) industrial ventilation department. 3. Consultative bureau. 4. Pedagogical sector. Publishes works (collection) and bulletin. Institute of Pathology and Labor Hygiene, All-Ukrainian state (reorganized from the former Ukrainian Institute of Worker Medicine) NKZdr. of Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov, 1923. Sectors: I. Professional-hygienic with departments: a) general professional pathology, b) private professional pathology, c) labor physiology, d) chemical. 2. Experimental biology. Departments: a) toxicological, b) pathophysiological, c) histopathological, d) neurohistological, e) bacteriological. 3. Investigative clinic. Departments: a) inpatient, b) clinical laboratory. 4. Statistical. 5. Organizational-educational. 6. Sanitary-educational. 7. Central bureau of medical expertise. 8. Courses for sanitary physicians. Institute for the Study of Professional Diseases named after V. A. Obukh, Moscow Regional Department of Health, Moscow, 1923. I. Treatment department. 1. Inpatient. Departments: a) therapeutic, b) neurological, c) surgical. 2. Semi-stationary-prophylactorium (night sanatorium, diet canteen). 3. Polyclinic. 4. Professional consultation. 5. Special departments in other medical institutions of the Moscow Regional Department of Health. 6. Scientific research laboratories: a) anatomical-pathological, b) physiological, c) biochemical, d) experimental pathology. 7. Auxiliary laboratories: a) clinical-diagnostic, b) chemical, c) psychophysiological, d) cardiological, e) for studying gas exchange. II. Sanitary department. Laboratories: 1) sanitary-hygienic, 2) physical. Statistics office. Museum. Publishes works ("Improvement of Labor and Revolution of Everyday Life") since 1923. Institute for the Study of Professional Diseases on Transport, central laboratory of NKPS and NKZdr., Moscow, 1925. Departments: 1. Sanitary-hygienic. 2. Physiological. 3. Psychological. 4. Clinical: a) inpatient, b) polyclinic. The laboratory has a psychophysiological car. Institute for the Study of Professional Diseases, central state NKZdr., Moscow, 1929 (transformed from the Clinic of Professional and Social Diseases, which existed since 1923 at 1st Moscow State University). Departments: 1. Treatment. Departments: a) inpatient, b) polyclinic, c) clinical-diagnostic laboratory with offices of all specialties. 2. Experimental-pathological. 3. Professional-medical selection. 4. General and professional disability (expertise). 5. Sanitary-hygienic. 6. Statistics of professional diseases. 7. Courses and consultation. Institute for the Study of Professional Diseases of the Regional Health Department, Leningrad, 1924. Departments. 1. Mass research: a) departments (offices) for all medical specialties, b) sanitary-hygienic, c) statistical. 2. Clinical-diagnostic. 3. Psychophysiology of labor. 4. Experimental-biological. Departments: a) diagnostic, b) biochemical, c) pathological. 5. Bureau for studying morbidity. Publishes works. Sanitary-Hygienic Institute of NKZdr., Moscow, 1920. Departments: 1. General communal sanitation. 2. Food. 3. Water with an experimental station for wastewater treatment. 4. Epidemiological. 5. Disinfection and disinsection. Publishes "Works of the San.-Hyg. Institute" since 1929. Institute of Social Hygiene, state NKZdr., Moscow, 1919. Until 1923 - State Museum of Social Hygiene. Departments. 1. Biometric with offices: a) anthropometric, b) psychometric, c) medical research, d) central anthropometer, bureau. 2. Sanitary-statistical with offices: a) methodological, b) demography and mortality, c) for processing materials of other departments. 3. Social hygiene of national minorities. 4. Sanitary education. 5. Organization of healthcare with offices: a) general organizational issues, b) hospital affairs, c) history of healthcare, d) social insurance. 6. For studying problems of collective life, with offices: a) alcoholism, b) housing, c) eugenics, d) nutrition, e) sexual life, f) material and social influences on child development. 7. Auxiliary institutions: a) museum of social hygiene, infectious diseases and social diseases, b) museum-exhibition bureau, c) workshop of teaching aids and exhibits. 8. Educational sector. Institute of Sanitary Culture of Moscow Health Department, Moscow, 1928. Departments. 1. Social hygiene. Sectors: a) early childhood and motherhood, b) school and preschool, c) youth, d) adult groups (industrial workers and peasants), e) organization of healthcare. 2. Methods and forms. Sectors: a) literary-publishing, b) visual method, c) library-bibliographic, d) stage and platform, e) living word, f) cinema. 3. Educational. Sanitary Moscow Institute named after Erisman, Moscow Health Department, Moscow, 1921. Organized in 1889 as a sanitary station at the Moscow Hygienic Institute of 1st Moscow State University. Departments: 1. Communal. 2. Food. 3. Technical-chemical. 4. General biology. 5. Professional diseases. III. Treatment and prophylactic institutes. Venereological Institute, state named after V. M. Bronner, NKZdr., Moscow, 1921. Departments. 1. Clinical. Departments: a) syphilitic, b) dermatological, c) male gonorrhea, d) female gonorrhea, e) polyclinic. 2. Experimental venereology and dermatology. Departments: a) pathological-anatomical, b) microbiological, c) serological, d) vaccine, e) hematological, f) chemical, g) clinical analyses. 3. Social venereology with a model dispensary. Departments are built on the principle of departments where special courses are conducted for training and improving venereologists. Venereological Institute, state NKZdr. of Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov, 1923. Departments. 1. Social. Offices: a) social-hygienic research, b) statistical, c) sanitary education, d) scientific-consultative bureau, e) museum. 2. Clinical (each department of the clinical department consists of a polyclinic reception and inpatient department). Departments: a) syphilitic, b) male gonorrhea, c) female gonorrhea, d) pediatric, e) skin, f) x-ray-physiotherapy office. 3. Experimental-analytical. Laboratories: a) serological, b) bacteriological, c) microscopic, d) biochemical, e) pathological-histological, f) experimental. Publishes a collection of works. Institute of Dietetics and Therapeutic Physical Culture, state scientific named after N. A. Semashko, NKZdr., Moscow, 1920. Until 1929 existed in the form of a sanatorium. Departments: 1. Dietetics. 2. Therapeutic physical culture. 3. Dispensary for gastrointestinal diseases and metabolic disorders. Dermato-venereological Institute named after E. S. Glavche, NKZdr. of Ukrainian SSR, Odessa, 1919. Departments. 1. Clinical: a) syphilitic, b) skin, c) male urological, d) female urological. 2. Polyclinic: a) dispensary, b) auxiliary offices, c) social venereology. Institute of Social Diseases, Moscow Regional Department of Health, Moscow, 1928. Reorganized from the 1st Moscow Tuberculosis Institute by merging with it the tuberculosis hospital and the Dostoevsky hospital. Sectors: 1. Tuberculosis. 2. Narcological. 3. Venereological. Departments: a) clinics of pulmonary tuberculosis; b) clinics of surgical tuberculosis; c) clinics of the upper respiratory tract; d) social pathology (for all three sectors); e) experimental pathology (all laboratories); f) pathological anatomy; g) tuberculosis dispensary; h) narcological dispensary. Offices: a) physiatry; b) x-ray; c) dental; d) for tuberculin; e) bioclimatic; f) biometric; g) for sanitary education; h) for statistics; i) for labor therapy. Branches: lupusarium, children's tuberculosis hospital, sanatorium "Vysokie Gory", "Libknechta", "Sergievo", venereal dispensary. Courses for advanced training of physicians (4-month). Tuberculosis Institute.

NKZdr., Moscow, 1921. Departments. 1. Clinical. Departments: a) adult tuberculosis, b) childhood tuberculosis. 2. Experimental. Departments: a) microbiological, b) biochemical, c) pathological-anatomical. 3. Social. Tuberculosis Institute, state, Yalta, 1922. Departments. 1. Clinical: a) therapeutic (pulmonary), b) surgical, c) throat tuberculosis, d) pediatric. 2. Biopathological (path.-anat.) with immuno-biological. 3. Social pathology and prevention. 4. Bio-climatic. 5. Dispensary with night and day children's sanatoriums. In use by the Institute are groups: Massandra sanatoriums, Pirogovskaya, Botkinskaya, Marine sanatoriums and 'Zdravnitsa.' Publishes scientific works of the institute. Tuberculosis Ukrainian Institute, state NKZdr. Ukrainian SSR, Odessa, 1924. Departments: 1. Social pathology and hygiene. 2. Pathological-anatomical. 3. Immuno-biological. 4. Hospital for tuberculosis patients, adults and children. Departments: a) internal organs, b) bones and joints. 5. Tuberculosis dispensary for adults and children: a) permanent, b) night. 6. Dispensaries. 7. Courses for advanced training of physicians. IV. Institute for the protection of motherhood and child health. Obstetric-gynecological Institute, state NKZdr., Leningrad. Departments (chairs). 1. Normal and pathological obstetrics. Departments: a) pregnant, b) maternity, c) postpartum, d) women's consultation. 2. Gynecology. Departments: a) gynecological, b) physical methods of treatment, c) general gynecological outpatient clinic, d) outpatient clinic for physical methods of treatment. 3. Hospital gynecology and obstetrics. Departments: a) maternity, b) gynecological, c) postpartum diseases, d) outpatient clinic. 4. Postpartum diseases. 5. Physiology and pathology of newborns. 6. Pathological anatomy. 7. Normal and pathological histology in obstetrics and gynecology. 8. Technical school for training midwives. Institute for the protection of health of children and adolescents named after the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, state NKZdr., Moscow, 1928. Departments. 1. Normal child and adolescent. Sections: a) athletic, b) pedological, c) reflexological, d) physiological, e) labor of adolescents. 2. Physically normal child. Sections: a) tuberculosis, b) prevention of childhood diseases, c) orthopedic. 3. Psychologically abnormal child. Sections: a) psychoneurological, b) biochemical. Publishes works (collection). Institute for the protection of health of children and adolescents of all-Ukrainian state, Kiev, 1924. Departments: 1. Normal child. 2. Physically abnormal childhood. 3. Psychologically abnormal childhood. Cabinets: a) constitution, heredity and anthropometry, b) internal organs, c) oral cavity and teeth, d) ear, throat and nose, e) eye, f) study of child labor and living conditions, g) NOT in school and vocational guidance, h) psychoneurological, i) physical education with motor and corrective gymnastics, j) study of behavior of children and adolescents, k) sanitary-pedagogical with school hygiene laboratory, l) physiological-chemical laboratory. Institute for the protection of health of children and adolescents, NKZdr., Gorod n/D., 1919. Departments. 1. Scientific research. Sections: a) anthropological, b) physiological, c) cardiological, d) hematological, e) pedological, f) psychotechnical. 2. Medical-pedological. 3. Pedagogical. Institute for the protection of motherhood and infancy, state scientific named after V. P. Lebedeva, Moscow, 1925. Chairs. 1. Obstetrics and women's diseases. Departments: a) physiological obstetrics, b) operative and conservative gynecology, c) postpartum diseases, d) pregnant, e) urology, f) newborns. 2. Pathology of early childhood. Departments: a) clinical, b) for premature infants, c) outpatient clinic, d) preclinical laboratory, e) light therapy office, f) X-ray office. 3. Physiology, hygiene and dietetics of early age. Departments: a) physiological, b) nursery, c) milk kitchen. 4. General physiology and biochemistry in application to mother and child with endocrinology department. 5. General and experimental pathology with departments: a) pathological-anatomical, b) bacteriological, c) experimental pathology. 6. Pedology and practical pedagogy of early age with pedological office. 7. Social hygiene of mother and child. Departments: a) socio-legal office, b) statistical office, c) central commission for the study of contraceptives, d) consultation for children, e) consultation for women, f) exhibition-museum for the protection of motherhood and infancy. Publishes 'Journal for the Study of Early Childhood' (since 1922) and monographs. At the institute functions a Center, technical school for midwives and sisters for the protection of motherhood and infancy. V. Institute of psycho-neurology. Neuropsychiatric prevention Institute, state scientific NKZdr., Moscow, 1927. Departments: 1. Clinical-preventive: consists of a) dispensary, b) diagnostic office, c) department for treatment of stuttering and speech defects. 2. Experimental-laboratory. Departments: a) clinical-diagnostic, b) pathology of the nervous system, c) psycho-physiological. 3. Neuro- and psychohygiene and social psychopathology. Departments: a) general neuro-hygiene, b) psychopathology and psychoanalysis, c) social psychiatry, d) for the fight against drug addiction, e) neuropsychiatric genetics. Institute for the study of higher nervous activity, Academy Committee, Moscow, 1925. Departments: 1. Anatomical-histological. 2. Biochemical. 3. Experimental pathology. 4. Experimental surgery. Institute for the study of the brain, scientific state named after V. I. Lenin, Moscow, 1927. Departments: 1. Anatomical. 2. Anatomical-physiological. 3. Racial biology. Psycho-neurological Academy, state NKZdr., Leningrad, 1907. Departments. 1. Scientific-experimental Institute for the study of the brain and mental activity. Departments: a) biochemical, b) physiological, c) surgical, d) histological, e) general and experimental psychology, f) museum. 2. Scientific-clinical. Departments: a) children's research institute, b) otophonetic, c) educational clinical institute for nervous children, d) institute of normal upbringing. 3. Pedagogical institute of social upbringing of normal and defective child. 4. Scientific-practical institutions: a) central institute for deaf-mute children, b) central school for defective children, c) institute for social and individual upbringing. Psycho-neurological Institute, state Ukrainian NKZdr. Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov, 1920. 1. Clinical group: a) neurological clinic with department of childhood psycho-neurology, b) physiotherapy offices. 2. Morphological group. Departments: a) microanatomy, b) anthropology and constitutional science, c) topographical-anatomical office (connected with department of experimental and operative neurosurgery). 3. Experimental-biological group. Departments: a) experimental and operative neurosurgery, b) neurophysiology with biochemical laboratory, c) experimental pathology, d) neurophysiology of labor, e) conditioned reflexes. 4. Group for the study of personality. Departments: a) psycho-physiological, b) psycho-neurology of childhood. 5. Group of social neurology. Departments: a) social pathology, b) psycho-neurological dispensary. Departments: 1) neurological, 2) psychotherapeutic, 3) speech therapy, c) narcodispensary. Publishes works. Reflexological Institute for the study of the brain named after V. M. Bekhterev, state NKZdr., Leningrad. Departments. 1. Morphological. Departments: a) anatomy and histology, b) nervous system, c) experimental neuropathology, d) brain museum. 2. Physiological. Departments: a) physiology of nerve processes, b) biophysics of nerve processes, c) biochemistry of nerve processes. 3. Reflexological. 4. Defectological. 5. Labor: a) laboratory of applied reflexology of labor, b) laboratory for hygiene of labor, c) consultation bureau for labor issues. VI. Institute of balneology, physical methods of treatment and physical culture. Balneological Institute, state, Pyatigorsk. Departments. 1. Physico-chemical. 2. Balneotechnical. 3. Hydrobiological. 4. Biological. 5. Climatological. 6. Balneotherapeutic with clinics in Kislovodsk (cardiological clinic), in Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Zheleznovodsk. 7. Courses for physicians in all specialties of resort management. Central state Institute of balneology, NKZdr., Moscow. Departments. 1. Experimental physiology and physico-biological research. Laboratories: a) physico-chemical, b) bioclimatic, c) biophysical. 2. Hydrobiological bureau. 3. Central office for scientific accounting of results of resort treatment. 4. Clinics. Departments: a) therapeutic, b) dietetic and diseases of digestive organs, c) neurological, d) orthopedic-surgical, e) gynecological, f) polyclinic, g) clinical-diagnostic laboratory, h) medical-resort selection consultation, i) offices: electro-light therapy and X-ray. 5. Water-mud treatment. Orthopedic and Traumatology Institute, Ukrainian state NKZdr. Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov. Clinics with inpatient and outpatient departments. Departments: 1. Physical methods of treatment: 2. Orthopedic. 3. Social pathology. 4. Experimental with clinical laboratory. Orthopedic-prosthetic Institute of Moscow Health Department, Moscow. Departments: 1. Surgical. 2. Prosthetic-orthopedic. 3. Maxillofacial surgery and dentistry. 4. Dental prosthetic department. o. Treatment of throat stenosis. 6.

Therapeutic. 7. Selection committee. 8. Outpatient. 9. Clinical-diagnostic laboratory. 10. Prosectorate. X-ray Institute of the State People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1924. Departments. 1. X-ray-technical with laboratories: a) X-ray, b) vacuum, c) high voltage, d) high frequency. 2. Clinical with polyclinic. 3. Biochemical and biophysical. 4. Museum. 5. Experimental X-ray workshops. 6. Courses for training and advanced training of higher and medium-level X-ray personnel. X-ray, radiological and cancer Institute of the State People's Commissariat of Health and People's Commissariat of Education, Leningrad, 1919. 1. Clinical department. 2. Polyclinic. 3. Department for experimental cancer research. 4. General biology. 5. Experimental biology and histology. 6. Botanical-microbiological. 7. Biochemical. 8. Bacteriological and serological. 9. Physiological. 10. Anatomical. 11. Pathological-anatomical. Publishes "Bulletin of Radiology and Radiology" (since 1920) and special monographs. Traumatological Institute of the State People's Commissariat of Health, Leningrad, 1924. The Institute was organized by merging two Institutes - the former Physio-surgical Institute named after A. L. Polenov (established in 1916) and the former Orthopedic Institute. 1. Inpatient department with departments: a) traumatological, b) neuro-surgical, c) orthopedic, d) dental (maxillofacial surgery). 2. Surgical polyclinic (including dental department). 3. Department of physical methods of treatment. 4. X-ray. 5. Workshops: a) prosthetic-instrumental, b) dental (only maxillofacial prosthetics). 6. a) Courses for advanced training of surgeons-traumatologists), b) special short-term courses. Publishes textbooks, guides, brochures. Institute of Physical Culture of the central State People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1918. Serves, in addition to the People's Commissariat of Health, the Supreme Council for Physical Culture, Sportintern and other organizations. Departments. 1. Scientific-educational. Departments: a) pedagogical (4-year courses), b) medical-pedological (1-year courses exclusively for physicians), c) short-term special courses for physicians, teachers and physical education instructors. 2. Scientific-research. Laboratories: a) anthropological, b) physiological, c) hygienic, d) cardiological, e) hematological, f) pedological, g) pedagogical, h) psychotechnical. 3. Scientific-consultative. Offices: a) for physical culture, b) for medical gymnastics, c) for psychotechnics and professional selection. Publishes works in the form of collections. Institute of Physical Culture named after P. F. Lesgaft, State, Leningrad. 1. Scientific-research department. Departments: a) physical culture, b) physiology, c) hygiene, d) pedology, e) school science, f) anatomy and histology. 2. Scientific-educational department. Departments: a) for training teachers of physical culture of higher qualification, b) courses for advanced training of physicians of the Department of Health and others, c) courses for advanced training of teachers of physical culture. Institute of Physical Therapy and Orthopedics, State (GIFO) People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1920. Clinic with polyclinics for internal, nervous, orthopedic-surgical, gynecological diseases. Departments. 1. Diagnostic: a) X-ray diagnostic, b) electrodiagnostic. 2. Therapeutic: c) for electrotherapy, d) for hydrotherapy, e) for phototherapy, f) for X-ray therapy, g) for mechanotherapy, h) for hemo- and aerotherapy, i) for mud therapy, j) for radiotherapy. 3. Laboratories: a) chemical-bacteriological and serological, b) prosectorate. 4. Prosthetic-orthopedic shop. Physiotherapeutic Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health, Leningrad, 1918. Departments: 1. Polyclinic with 11 offices (hydrotherapeutic, mud therapy, incandescent light, low voltage currents, high voltage currents, static electricity, X-ray therapeutic and X-ray diagnostic, mechanotherapeutic, quartz, radon emanation, distribution). 2. Clinic-inpatient. 3. Scientific-clinical laboratory with departments: a) biomechanical, b) biophysical, c) biochemical, d) physiological-experimental. Physiotherapeutic Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health, Tomsk, 1920. Departments: 1. Inpatient and polyclinic for all diseases. 2. Physiotherapeutic with subsections: a) hydrotherapy, b) electrotherapy, c) light therapy, d) mechanotherapy. 3. X-ray-radiological subsection: diagnostic and therapeutic. 4. Radiological clinic for patients with malignant tumors and other diseases. 5. Cardiological. 6. Scientific-research laboratory with departments: a) clinical analyses, b) histological, c) bacteriological and experimental. 7. Museum. Publishes collections of works on individual issues, monographs, textbooks. Institute of Physical Methods of Treatment named after Prof. I. M. Sechenov, State, People's Commissariat of Health, Sevastopol, 1914. 1. Physiotherapeutic clinic and polyclinic. Departments: a) mechanotherapeutic, b) balneotherapeutic, c) hydrotherapeutic, d) electrotherapeutic, e) light therapy, f) X-ray, g) radiotherapeutic, h) solariums, i) inhalatoria, j) mud therapy. Offices: a) gynecological, b) dermatological, c) ophthalmological, d) otorhinolaryngological, e) surgical. 2. Sanatoriums. 3. Laboratory. Departments: a) experimental-physiological, b) chemical, c) physical, d) pathological-histological, e) diagnostic. 4. Meteorological station. 5. Museum. Publishes collections of works. Upper respiratory tract scientific research Institute of Glavnauka, Saratov, 1928. Departments: 1. Physiological. 2. Biochemical. 3. Pathological-anatomical. 4. Bacteriological. 5. Clinical. Hematology Institute of the State (blood transfusion) named after Bogdanov, People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow. Departments: 1. Scientific-research. 2. Scientific-educational. 3. Production (standard sera, preparations, apparatus and accessories for blood transfusion). Institute for the Study of Crime and Criminals, State, under the NKVD (an interdepartmental institution subordinate to the NKVD, People's Commissariat of Health, NKYu, NKP). Offices in Moscow, Leningrad, Saratov, Rostov on Don. Departments: 1. Socio-economic. 2. Biopsychological. 3. Penitentiary. 4. Criminalistic. 5. Statistical bureau. 6. Museum. Publishes works ("Problems of Crime"). VII. Miscellaneous. Dentistry Institute named after P. G. Daughe (GISO), State, People's Commissariat of Health, Moscow, 1922. Departments: 1. Conservative. 2. Surgical. 3. Inpatient. 4. Children's preventive. 5. Laboratories: a) X-ray, b) chemical-bacteriological, c) pathological-histological. 6. Demonstration polyclinic. 7. Museum. Chemical-pharmaceutical scientific Institute of the NTU VSNKh, Moscow, 1922. Departments. 1. Physiotherapeutic. Laboratories: a) pharmacological, b) biochemical, c) microbiological, d) experimental therapy, e) experimental bacteriology. 2. Botanical-pharmaceutical. 3. Alkaloid. Laboratories for chemistry and physiological chemistry. 4. Synthetic chemistry. 5. Essential oils and other substances. 6. Analytical. Laboratories: medical and technical. Pharmaceutical experimental Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health of the Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov, 1920. Founded in 1913, existed as the Chemical-pharmaceutical and bacteriological Institute at the Kharkov pharmaceutical society. Departments: 1. Experimental pharmacy with pharmacological office. 2. Control-analytical. VIII. Veterinary Science. Veterinary scientific research Institutes of the NKZema of the RSFSR. 1. Leningrad regional (with it Central Institute for advanced training of physicians), Leningrad, former Leningrad veterinary-bacteriological Institute, 1898. 2. Siberian regional, Omsk, former Siberian veterinary-bacteriological Institute, 1914. 3. Middle Volga regional, Samara, former Samara veterinary-bacteriological Institute, 1893. 4. Central Black Earth region Voronezh Institute, former Voronezh veterinary-bacteriological Institute, 1897. Reorganized from 1/X 1924. Departments: 1. Microbiological. 2. Epizootological. 3. Protozoological-helminthological. 4. Veterinary-sanitary-hygienic. 5. Consultative-diagnostic. Veterinary-zootechnical scientific research Institute of the North-Caucasian regional, Novocherkassk, former Don veterinary-bacteriological Institute, 1897, NKZema of the RSFSR. Reorganized in 1929. Departments: 1. Microbiological. 2. Epizootological. 3. Protozoological-helminthological. 4. Veterinary-sanitary-hygienic. 5. Consultative-diagnostic. 6. Zootechnical. 7. Zoohygienic. Veterinary experimental Institute, State, NKZema of the RSFSR, Moscow (Kuzminki, station Lyublino Moscow-Kazan railway), 1898. Until 1917 existed as "St. Petersburg veterinary bacteriological laboratory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs". Departments: 1. General microbiology. 2. Protozoology. 3. Pathological anatomy. 4. Comparative pathology. (Previously existed in Leningrad as a separate Institute). 5. Physiology. 6. Biology of reproduction. 7. Biochemistry. 8. Pharmacology. 9. Helminthology. 10. For the study of glanders with a laboratory for the production of mallein. 11. For the study of tuberculosis with a laboratory for the production of tuberculin. 12. For the study of anthrax. 13. For the study of swine diseases (with Kashintsev anti-plague swine station - station Shelkovo, North railway). 14. For the study of poultry diseases. 15. Meat science. 16. Scientific-planning and expert bureau. 17. Clinical institute. Publishes works of the institute. Peripneumonia Institute, State, Levashov agricultural, Pugachevsky district of the Lower Volga region, NKZema of the RSFSR, 1924. Departments: 1. For the study of the etiology of peripneumonia. 2. For the study of methods of combating peripneumonia.

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“List of Scientific Research Institutes of the USSR (Medicine and Related Fields).” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/list-of-scientific-research-institutes-of-the-ussr-medicine-and-related-fields/