100 YEARS TO FIRST ALL-RUSSIAN MEETING OF ZOOLOGISTS, ANATOMISTS AND HISTOLOGIST AND MODERN HUMAN ANATOMY

Abstract

The content of the article is a verbatim report of the speech under Title «100 years of Russian anatomy (on the anniversary of the founding of the Scientific Society of Anatomists)», included in the scientific program of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation «Morphological Aspects in Practical Medicine and Biology», dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of the Department of Human Anatomy of the Medical Institute of the Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University as part of the annual XIII National Congress with international participation «Ecology and Human Health in the North», which took place in Yakutsk City (Russia, Sakha Republic) on December 8, 2022. The congress was also dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the formation of the former Yakut Soviet Socialist Republic of USSR and the 65th Anniversary of medical education in Yakut Republic. In the report dedicated to the Anniversary of the founding of the first professional scientific community of anatomists, histologists and embryologists in the history of the Russian state - the All-Union Society of Zoologists, Anatomists and Histologists (later - the All-Union Scientific Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists - AUSSAHE), which took place from December 15 to 21 1922 in Petrograd (later - Leningrad and renamed Saint-Petersburg) provides information about the initiators of the convocation of the meeting, its preparation and conduct, the content of the work and key reports of anatomists presented at the meeting. The meeting was initiated by a prominent Russian zoologist, specialist in animal morphology, Doctor of Zoology, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of Petrograd State University Vladimir Shimkevich, as well as the famous Russian Histologist, Professor Alexander Dogiel - the Founder of the Russian scientific journal «Archive of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology», Professors Vladimir Tonkov, Konstantin Deryugin, Nikolay Koltsov and others. Founded in 1922 at the I All-Russian meeting, the All-Russian Society of Zoologists, Anatomists and Histologists was at its IV All-Union meeting in 1930 renamed into the All-Union Scientific Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Zoologists, and then, at the V meeting in 1949 - into the All-Union scientific society of anatomists, histologists and embryologists or AUSMSAHE. AUSMSAHE in September 1991 at its last XI meeting in Minsk ceased to exist.The author noted the anatomical reports of the meeting, which laid the foundation for the entire subsequent development of Russian anatomy as a science and the problems of its current state.