Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»285410.69541/NRIPH.2024.03.026Научная статьяSelf-organization of the medical science of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920sSinelnikovaElena F.sinelnikova-elena@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9789-4538St. Petersburg Branch of S.I.Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences01102024316917327052025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>Scientific societies are one of the most traditional and effective forms of science self-organization. The article is devoted to the medical societies activities in Petrograd-Leningrad during the 1920s. Based on archival materials about the activities of these scientific societies, stored in the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg, various directions and forms of their scientific and organizational work, administrative and economic activities, problems of relationships with authorities, as well as their socio-demographic and numerical composition. The author concluded that Petrograd-Leningrad medical scientific societies made a significant contribution to the development of medicine in the 1920s. Despite the different period of existence, the unequal number of members, they all pursued a common goal the development of medical science and the active use of its latest achievements in public health practice.</p>History of medicinemedical societieshistory of scienceself-organization of sciencepublic organizationsИстория медицинымедицинские обществаистория наукисамоорганизация наукиобщественные организации1.Volkov M.V., Levit M.M., Lemenev L.M. Scientific medical societies of the USSR. In: Volkov MV editor. Scientific medical societies of the USSR: Collection of articles. M.: Medicine; 1972. P.5—20 (in Russian).2.3.Stepanskiy A.D. Autocracy and public organizations of Russia at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. M.; 1980. P.96 (in Russian).4.5.Rossiyskiy D.M. On the history of the development of medical societies in our country. Soviet medicine. [Sovetskaya meditsina].1945;(12):45—50 (in Russian).6.7.Resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR “On the procedure for approval and registration of societies and unions that do not pursue profit-making purposes, and the procedure for supervising them”. SU RSFSR. 1922;(49):787—788 (in Russian).8.9.Normal charter of scientific, literary and scientific-artistic societies that do not pursue profit-making purposes and are under the jurisdiction of the Main Science of the People's Commissariat for Education. Bulletin of the NKVD. 1923;(12):88—89 (in Russian).10.11.Regulations on societies and unions not pursuing the goal of making a profit. SU RSFSR. 1928;(22):70—276 (in Russian).12.13.Regulations on voluntary societies and unions. SU RSFSR. 1930;(44):687—690 (in Russian).14.15.Balashov E.M. Pedology in Russia in the first third of the 20th century. St. Petersburg: Nestor-History Publishing House; 2012. P.191 (in Russian).