Society of the Moscow Scientific Institute

Society became the first organization in the Russian Empire created to reduce the influence of government policy on science. The organization’s statute was approved on April 16, 1912, and on May 10 the first meeting was held. The main goals of society: to contribute to solving scientific issues in all areas of science; to help people who have expressed a desire to conduct scientific research in a certain field; organize scientific institutions for this, including laboratories, classrooms, museums, libraries, etc. The minimum membership fee was 50 rubles (the price of one share); society consisted only of scientists. The founders of the society were A. A. Bakhrushin, N. D. Zelinsky , P. N. Lebedev , I. P. Pavlov , I. I. Mechnikov , etc. The Academic Council included N. M. Kulagin , A. A Manuilov , P. A. Minakov , N. A. Umov , S. A. Chaplygin , V. D. Shervinsky , A. A. Eichenwald . The chairman of the board was appointed lawyer A.I. Gennert. From the end of October 1912, regular meetings of the Academic Council and the Board of the Society were held.

At first it was planned to open a physical and biological laboratory and a department of social sciences with a publishing fund. In 1916, the Institute of Experimental Biology was organized (headed by N.K. Koltsov ), in 1917 - the Physiological Institute (headed by M.N. Shaternikov) and the Physical Institute (headed by P.P. Lazarev ). In August 1918, the Central Serum and Vaccine Control Station was opened (in 1919 it was reorganized into the Institute for Serum and Vaccine Control). Later, the society served as the basis for the State Institute of Public Health (GINZ).

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