St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia

The first association of pediatric doctors in Russia was established in St. Petersburg on the initiative of Nikolai Ivanovich Bystrov, professor of pediatrics at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy (1841-1906), on November 28, 1885 under the name "Society of Children's Doctors of St. Petersburg" ^[1] . In 1914 and in 1924 , due to changes in the name of the city, the company was twice renamed, first, the “Society of Children's Doctors in Petrograd,” and then the “Society of Children's Doctors of Leningrad . ” Since 1994, the Society is known by its real name.

By the time the Society of Pediatric Doctors of St. Petersburg was founded, pediatrics in Russia had a short, but very eventful path:

• In 1767, a graduate of the Surgical School at the St. Petersburg Ground and Admiralty Hospitals, as well as the medical faculty of the Leiden University in the Netherlands, doctor of medicine Pyotr Ivanovich Pogoretsky published a Latin translation of the monograph of his St. Petersburg teacher academician Johann Schreiber published in Leipzig in German under the title " Kurze, doch zulaengliche Anweisung zur Erkenntniss und Gur der vornehmsten Krankheiten des menschlichen Leibes, dogh vornehmlich in Absicht auf erwachsene Mannspersonen wie solche in den Grossen Hospitaelern zu St. Petersburg alle Jahre seit 1742 bis hierher ist vorgetragen un erklaeret worden ". In the process of translation, P. I. Pogoretsky added a whole volume of his own additions “of the main infirmities of the female sex and young children.” This volume by Pyotr Ivanovich, subsequently (1781) translated into Russian by Nestor Maksimovich Maksimovich-Ambodik (1744-1812), became the first short guide to childhood diseases in Russia.
• In 1784, professor of midwifery art at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy Nestor Maksimovich Maksimovich-Ambodik published the first obstetrics manual in Russia under the title “The Art of Midwifery, or the Science of the Womanish Affair”, in the fifth part of which was given:

“... a brief explanation of all that educators should know and do - regarding their natural properties, upbringing, care from birth to adolescence; a description of the diseases that the infant is experiencing; notes and instructions on the treatment of these and reliable means to facilitate and protect children from illnesses contributing "

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• In 1829, the doctor of medicine and surgery, Philipp Philipp von Depp (1793-1855), for the first time organized a pediatric service at the St. Petersburg Educational House . In collaboration with the doctor of medicine Alexander Nikitich Nikitin (1793-1858), for the first time in Russia, a “Village Expedition” was created to monitor the children of the Orphanage housed in peasant families;
• On May 6, 1833, the Free Economic Society in St. Petersburg for the first time announced a competition for a study on the establishment of the causes of high child mortality in Russia and ways to overcome it. The debriefing took place on March 1, 1834 . Victory awarded to Dr. Jeremiah Rudolf Lichtenstedt ;
• In 1834, the first children's hospital for the poor in Russia was opened in St. Petersburg under the supervision of the military doctor Karl Ivanovich Friedeburg (1786-1835), which was replaced after a year by the doctor of medicine, who had experience working with children, Fedor Ivanovich von Weiss (1792-1869). Subsequently, the hospital was called "Nikolaev", and after the October Revolution was renamed the Children's Hospital. N. F. Filatova ;
• In 1836, obstetric professor Stepan Fomich Hotovitsky (1796-1885) for the first time in Russia began giving a course of lectures on childhood diseases for students of the Medical and Surgical Academy. In 1847, he published the first domestic manual on childhood diseases, called “Pediatrics”. Unfortunately, due to the extremely small circulation, only 600 copies, it remained almost unnoticed by contemporaries;
• In 1844, under the guidance of the doctor of medicine Ernst Alexandrovich (Yakovlevich) Meyer (1810-1872), a second children's hospital was opened in St. Petersburg, which, by the highest order, became known as the Elisaveta Clinical Hospital for young children . In Soviet times, the hospital was named after the French microbiologist Louis Pasteur and was closed in the 90s of the XX century;
• In 1865, Vasily Markovich Florinsky (1834-1899) , associate professor of obstetrics at the Medical and Surgical Academy, was appointed head of the children's clinic of the academy and began a systematic lecture on pediatrics;
• In 1866, Ya. M. Simonovich and his wife opened the first kindergarten in St. Petersburg, in subsequent years Ya. M. Simonovich published a number of works on the early development of the child;
• In 1869, in St. Petersburg, on the initiative of Professor V. M. Florinsky, the first department of childhood diseases was organized in Russia, headed by his student, Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Bystrov ^[2] . From that moment, the teaching of pediatrics at the academy took on a systematic character, as part of the external studies , the training of pediatricians began, the first scientific research in the field of physiology and pathology of children began;
• In the same 1869, by decision of Prince Peter Georgievich Oldenburgsky , the third children's hospital was opened in the capital. For the first time, with the direct participation of Dr. Karl Andreevich Rauchfus (1835–1915), it was designed and built as a children's medical institution and had the most advanced medical technologies for that time. By international recognition, she was the best in Europe. He headed the hospital named after Prince Peter of Oldenburg himself K. A. Rauchfus. Since 1918, the hospital bears his name. In those same years, children's doctor Dmitry Petrovich Boreisha gained wide popularity in the Kolomna part of the capital;
• It should be added that in different years, various charitable organizations of St. Petersburg opened shelters for poor and sick children. Their number was constantly increasing.

An important prerequisite for the creation of the St. Petersburg Society of Children's Doctors was the fact that by 1885 public associations of doctors had long existed in St. Petersburg. The first in 1819 was the "German Medical Society in St. Petersburg" (Der deutsche aerzliche Verein in St. Petersburg) ^[3] . In 1834, the " Society of Russian Doctors of St. Petersburg ". Later appeared: “The Society of Practicing Doctors in St. Petersburg”, “The Society of Naval Doctors in St. Petersburg”, “The General Society of St. Petersburg Doctors” and some others.

Most of the doctors working in the field of pediatrics were members of various medical societies and acutely felt the need to unite according to their professional interests.

The constituent assembly of the Society was held on November 28, 1885 on the territory of the Military Medical Academy. The number of founders, among which the vast majority were St. Petersburg children's doctors, was 63.

According to the adopted charter, a full member of the Society could "... be any doctor who has received the right to practice in Russia, is interested in the success of pediatrics and is ready to directly contribute to the needs of the Society with his activities . "

By 1895, the number of full members of the Company was 99. In addition, 7 honorary members and 3 corresponding members worked with the Company.

The first charter said:

"The Society of Pediatric Doctors aims to serve the success of pediatrics and the collegial convergence of doctors involved in this branch of medical science . "

In this regard, the following tasks were formulated:

• monitor the development of pediatrics and everything related to the physical education of children;
• pay attention to the emergence of epidemic diseases among children and the best measures to prevent their spread;
• enter into consideration of issues, within the limits of his specialty, proposed to him for discussion by various administrative institutions, zemstvos, charitable societies, etc .;
• strive to maintain a moral connection between members and other doctors, based on the principles of respect for science and for their knowledge;
• to promote the development of domestic literature on pediatrics by awarding a gold medal to the author of the best work on pediatrics in Russia, according to the report of a specially elected commission. "
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The first chairman of the Society was elected Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Bystrov (1841-1906).

Until 1917, over the years, the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the Society were well-known St. Petersburg pediatricians - employees of children's hospitals and the Department of Children's Diseases of the Imperial Military Medical Academy:

• Abelman Moris Lvovich (1863-1927) - doctor of medicine, doctor of the Elizabethan Clinical Hospital for young children;
• Arnheim Friedrich (Fedor) Karlovich (1845-1893) - doctor of medicine, senior doctor of the Elizabethan Clinical Hospital for young children, director of the Maximilian Hospital for incoming patients;
• Van Puteren Mikhail Dmitrievich (1853-1908) - doctor of medicine, chief physician of the St. Petersburg Orphanage, privat-docent of the department of childhood diseases at the Imperial Military Medical Academy;
• Baron von Heyking Eduard Andreevich (1855 — after 1914) - doctor of medicine, senior doctor of the Children's Hospital of Peter Oldenburgsky;
• Gundobin Nikolay Petrovich (1860-1908) - professor, head of the department of childhood diseases of the Military Medical Academy;
• Zotov Alexander Dmitrievich (1863-1933) - doctor of medicine, chief doctor of the City Children's Hospital "In memory of the sacred coronation of Their Imperial Majesties" ;
• Lunin Nikolai Ivanovich (1854-1937) - doctor of medicine, founder of the doctrine of vitamins, chief doctor of the Children's Hospital of Prince Peter Oldenburgsky after its renaming;
• Ostrogorsky Sergey Alekseevich (1867-1934) - MD, a specialist in school hygiene. One of the first directors of higher courses P.F. Lesgaft ;
• Peters Richard Alexandrovich (1850-1908) - doctor of medicine, senior doctor of the Children's Hospital of Prince Peter of Oldenburg, privat-docent of the department of childhood diseases of the Imperial Military Medical Academy;
• Radetsky Ivan Ivanovich (1835-1904) - assistant to the Imperial Military Medical Academy, chief doctor of the Warsaw Railway;
• Rauffus Karl Andreevich (1835-1915) - professor, one of the organizers of women's medical education in Russia, chief doctor of the Children's Hospital of Prince Peter Oldenburgsky;
• Reimer Karl Karlovich (1838-1900) - doctor of medicine, senior doctor of the Nikolaev Children's Hospital;
• Russov Alexander Andreevich (1846-1911) - professor of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Clinical Institute of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, second chief physician of the Children's Hospital of Prince Peter Oldenburgsky;
• Termen Emiliy Fedorovich (1827–1896) - doctor of medicine, doctor of the Hospital of the Imperial Human-Loving Society;
• Shkarin Alexander Nikolaevich (1876-1920) - professor, one of the first pediatric scientists, head of the department of childhood diseases at the Imperial Military Medical Academy.

In all, during the 32 years that passed before the October Revolution of 1917, 230 meetings of the Society were held at which 474 scientific reports and demonstrations were presented. The vast majority of reports were devoted to the description of casuistic cases in pediatrics, heart and central nervous system defects, childhood infections, as well as childhood physiology and constitutional abnormalities. The most problematic issues raised for the first time at the meetings of the Company were the following:

• Eduard Eduardovich Gartier (1872-1959) - Privatdocent of the Department of Children's Diseases at the Imperial Military Medical Academy - in 1905 brought up the issue of nosocomial infections;
• Vladislav Osipovich Hubert (1863-1941) - chief doctor of the St. Petersburg Orphanage , privat-docent of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Imperial Military Medical Academy - in 1902 initiated a discussion on feeding infants and the related issue of organizing a system of special dairy stations " Drop of milk ";
• Dmitry Alexandrovich Sokolov (1861-1915) - professor at the Department of Childhood Diseases of the Women's Medical Institute , chief physician of the City Children's Hospital “In memory of the sacred coronation of Their Imperial Majesties” - in 1901 gave an impetus to a polemic on the causes of high child mortality in Russia and ways to overcome it. Its practical embodiment was the creation of the "Union to Combat Child Mortality in Russia" ^[5] ;

Dmitry Alexandrovich Sokolov drew the attention of his colleagues to two more questions that for many years occupied the minds of the pediatric public in St. Petersburg:

• on the organization of care for sick children in hospitals;
• on the legality of providing medical care to children for health reasons without parental consent;

• The report by Karl Andreevich Rauchfus , sounded on the eve of the First World War, had a huge resonance among pediatricians. It was dedicated to the project of the organization “All-Russian Guardianship for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy”, which was practically not implemented. The report first presented the proposed structure of the system for the protection of motherhood and infancy in Russia.

In addition to those already listed, the following took an active part in the work of the Company in the first three decades of its existence:

• Voronikhin Nikolai Alekseevich (1842-1896) - doctor of medicine, senior doctor of the Elizabethan Clinical Hospital for young children;
• Vyazhlinsky Nikolay Konstantinovich (1860-1939) - doctor of medicine, chief physician of the Imperial Nikolaev Children's Hospital;
• Mikhail Samoilovich Zelensky (1829-1890) - Doctor of Medicine, Privatdocent of the Imperial Military Medical Academy;
• Korovin Ivan Pavlovich (1843-1908) - Privatdocent of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy;
• von Reitz Vladimir Nikolaevich (1839-1904) - professor, head physician of the Elizabethan Clinical Hospital for young children, founder of the course of childhood diseases of the Clinical Institute of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna ;
• Serk Julius Petrovich (1849-1919) - doctor of medicine, third chief doctor of the Children's Hospital of Prince Peter of Oldenburg;
• Shabad Israel Abramovich (1870-1917) - doctor of medicine, one of the founders and second head of the department of childhood diseases of the Women's Medical Institute
• Shabanova Anna Nikolaevna (1842-1932) - the first woman pediatrician, an employee of the Children's Hospital of Prince Peter of Oldenburg;

Conventionally, this period can be divided into two:

Maslovsky stage in the work of the Company

Before his death in 1961, the head of the departments of childhood diseases at the Military Medical Academy and the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute, academician Mikhail Stepanovich Maslov (1885-1961), the work of the Society of Children's Doctors of Leningrad was somehow connected with his name. He led the activities of society in the periods 1925-1926, 1929-1930, 1933-1935, 1936-1941, 1946-1961. The chairmen of the company’s board and vice-chairmen in these years also became:

• Gartier Eduard Eduardovich (1872-1959) - Professor, Department of Childhood Diseases, Psychoneurological Institute ;
• Danilevich Mikhail Georgievich (1882-1956) - professor of the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Znamensky Vladimir Filimonovich (1883-1964) - Doctor of Medicine, Associate Professor of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Military Medical Academy, Professor of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Institute;
• Zotov Alexander Dmitrievich (1863-1933) - doctor of medicine, chief doctor of the City Children's Hospital "In memory of the sacred coronation of Their Imperial Majesties";
• Medovikov Peter Sergeevich (1873-1941) - professor, professor of the Department of Pediatric Tuberculosis of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Mendeleva Julia Aronovna (1883-1959) - professor, rector of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Tour Alexander Fedorovich (1894-1974) - academician. Professor of Hospital Pediatrics, Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Furman Emanuel Berngardovich (1874-1842) - professor of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Medical Institute;

In 1925, with additions from 1931, the Company switched to a new charter, which formulated the following tasks:

• Promoting the scientific development of the theory and practice of medicine in the field of pediatrics and the organization of children's health;
• Assistance in advanced training of members of the Company;
• Providing scientific, methodological and practical assistance to health authorities and the Ministry;
• Summarizing the experience of practitioners and innovators in the field of pediatrics;
• Advocacy of the achievements of medical science in the field of pediatrics and the organization of children's health care among the general medical community and population.
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Taking into account the political realities of those years, they were supplemented with such items as: "Active participation in the socialist construction of the USSR" and "Promoting the strengthening of the country's defense" ^[7] .

The efficiency of the Company in these years has increased significantly. During the first 18 years of the Soviet period of its activity at 207 meetings, 520 reports and demonstrations were made, which significantly exceeded the activity of the first 32 years.

The most active participants in the work of the Company during this period were:

• Abezgauz Alexander Moiseevich (1898-1977) - professor of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Antonov Alexander Nikolaevich (1884-1947) - professor at the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Vladykin Aleksandr Lvovich (1870-1936) - professor of the Department of Physiology and Pathology of the Newborn at the D.O. Ott Ontology Leningrad Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology;
• Volovik Arkady Borisovich (1892-1980) - professor of the department of propaedeutics of childhood diseases of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Gornitskaya, Edda Abramovna (1892-1972) - professor of the Department of Pediatrics of the First Leningrad Medical Institute. I.P. Pavlova;
• Griboedov Adrian Sergeevich (1875-1948) - professor of the Department of Education Hygiene of the 2nd Leningrad Medical Institute;
• Kotikov Yuri Aggeevich (1897-1979) - Professor, Department of Hospital Pediatrics, Vice-Rector of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Krasnogorskiy Nikolai Ivanovich (1882-1961) - academician, professor of the Department of Pediatrics of the First Medical Institute, chief doctor of the Children's Hospital named after N.F. Filatov;
• Michnik Zinaida Osipovna (1878-1942) - associate professor of the department of social hygiene of women and children of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Morev Vasily Ivanovich (1891-1938) —Docent of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Military Medical Academy, Professor of the Department of Pediatrics of the 3rd Leningrad Medical Institute;
• Mochan Victor Osipovich (1875-1943) - professor of the Department of Pediatrics of the 2nd Leningrad Medical Institute.
• Rudnev Mikhail Fedorovich (1874-1930) - Privat-docent of the Department of Children's Diseases of the Military Medical Academy, professor of the Department of Hospital Pediatrics of the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Institute;
• Sadykova, Julia Nikolaevna (1877-1932) - female doctor, pediatrician, assistant professor of NPI OMM. One of the founders of the Leningrad school of children's doctors;
• Styrikovich Valerian Lvovich (1890-1962) - Associate Professor, Department of Faculty Pediatrics, Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Chisinau Medical Institute;
• Fridman Emanuel Iosifovich (1899-1959) - professor of faculty pediatrics of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
• Chulitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna (1868-1938) - professor of pedology in early childhood at the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute, professor of the somatic pedology department of the P. F. Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education;
• Shaak Wilhelm Adolfovich (1880-1957) - professor, organizer and first head of the departments of pediatric surgery in the 1st LMI and LPMI;

Not being pediatricians, or clinicians, such prominent figures of national science as:

• Gartokh, Oscar Oskarovich - Soviet microbiologist, one of the founders of immunology, organizer and first head of the Department of Microbiology of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute.
• Ioffe, Vladimir Ilyich (1898-1979) - academician, founder of the Soviet school of clinical immunology;
• Karasik, Vladimir Moiseevich (1894-1964) - academician, organizer and first head of the Department of Pharmacology of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute.

During these years, at meetings of the society, special attention was paid to such socially significant problems as the prevention of childhood infections, tuberculosis in children, the fight against summer diarrhea, but most importantly, the issues of organizing a system for protecting maternity and infancy (OMM) and a system for protecting the health of children and adolescents (OZDiP ), which during the first decades of Soviet power developed independently of each other. It was at the meetings of the Society of Pediatric Doctors of Leningrad that the issues of creating the scientific and practical institutes of the same name were discussed, first, the Protection of Maternity and Infancy, and then the Health Protection of Children and Adolescents, which later became known as the Research Institute for Children's Infections ^[8] .

One of the important topics raised at meetings of the Society in the late 1920s was the question of organizing primary pediatric education in the USSR. The result of such discussions was that first in 1931 the first pediatric faculty was organized at the First Leningrad Medical Institute in the world ^[9] , and 4 years later, the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute was opened on the basis of the Institute for the Protection of Mothers and Infants.

The Society had a special role to play during the years of World War II . During the blockade of Leningrad, it was led by Professor A.F. Tur and the rector of the Pediatric Institute, Yu.A. Mendeleva . Over the years, the Society has become the place where practitioners were promptly informed about the most relevant pediatric issues for the besieged city: methods of feeding children in conditions of hunger and lack of cow's milk, treatment of severe forms of dystrophy, vitamin deficiencies, infection control, etc. Most of the scientific reports during this period were devoted to precisely these topics.

Society of Pediatric Physicians in the Last Third of the USSR

In the 60s, the process of the rapid formation of specialized services began within pediatrics. Directions such as pediatric surgery, pediatric cardiac rheumatology, nephrology, allergology, endocrinology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, resuscitation and others have appeared. All this led to the formation of appropriate professional associations of doctors and, as a result, to changes in the forms of work of the Company. Gradually, the Society turned into a place for testing the results of dissertation research, which somewhat reduced the interest of practitioners in it.

The chairpersons of the Company during this period were:

• Tour Alexander Fedorovich (1894-1974) - academician, professor of the Department of Hospital Pediatrics of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute. Chairman of the Society from 1961 to 1974;
• Kliorin Alexander Ilyich (born: 1924) - professor, head of the department of childhood diseases at the S. Kirov Military Medical Academy. Chairman of the Society from 1974 to 1995;

In these years, along with many others, the following took part in the work of the Company:

• children's nephrologists:
  • Valentinovich Alexandra Antonovna (1909-1975) - professor at the Department of Pediatrics, LPMI;

• Papayan Albert Vazgenovich (1936-2002) - professor, chief children's nephrologist of Leningrad.

• pediatric cardiologists and cardiac rheumatologists:
  • Yuryev Vladimir Vladimirovich (1938–2015) - professor at the Department of Propaedeutics of Children's Diseases, LPMI, the main children's rheumatologist of Leningrad;

• Vorontsov, Igor Mikhailovich (1935-2007) - professor, head of the departments of propaedeutics of childhood diseases, childhood diseases No. 3, pediatrics FPK and PP LPMI, chief pediatrician of Leningrad;
• Orlova Nina Vasilievna (1923–2016) - Professor of the Department of Pediatrics, LenGIDUV;
• Boldyrev Ram Vyacheslavovich (1934-2006) - associate professor, chief pediatric cardiologist of Leningrad;
• Korenev, Pavel Borisovich (1949–2014) - Deputy Chief Physician, Children's Hospital No 1, Director General of the Russian branch of the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Charity Fund “For the Health and Future of Children”;
• Puchkova Alla Yakovlevna (genus: 1935) - Associate Professor of the Department of Pediatrics, LPMI.

• pediatric resuscitators and neonatologists:
  • Tsybulkin Eduard Kuzmich (1938–2001) - professor at the Department of Emergency Pediatrics, LPMI, chief pediatric resuscitator of Leningrad;

• Shabalov, Nikolai Pavlovich (b.: 1939) - professor of the department of hospital pediatrics, organizer and head of the department of pediatrics with perinatology courses at LPMI, head of the department of childhood diseases of the Military Medical Academy;
• Lyubimenko Vyacheslav Andreevich (1942-2017) - associate professor of the same department, deputy chief doctor of Children's hospital No 1, chief neonatologist of the St. Petersburg Health Committee;
• Khazanov Alexander Ilyich (born: 1930) - head of the department for premature babies.

• Children's surgeons:
  • Bairov Girey Alievich (1922–1999) —corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences , professor of the Department of Pediatric Surgery, LPMI;

• Gorenstein, Arkady Isaakovich (1941–2013) - resident of the clinic of pediatric surgery at the LPMI, later professor at Tel Aviv University;
• Dreyer Kira Lvovna (1921-1996) - assistant professor of the same department;
• Kagan Anatoly Vladimirovich (born in 1950) is the chief physician of the Children's City Hospital No. 1 of St. Petersburg .

• pediatric gynecologist:

• Gurkin Yuri Alexandrovich (b.: 1939) - Professor of the Department of Gynecology, LPMI, organizer and head of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, SPbSPMU.

• pediatric endocrinologist:

• Skorodok Leonid Markovich (1939-1982) - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Assistant of the Department of Hospital Pediatrics, LPMI, one of the organizers of the children's endocrinological service of Leningrad.

• pediatric allergist and clinical pharmacologist:
  • Ziselson Alexander Davidovich (born in 1941) is a professor at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, LPMI, and the main children's allergologist in Leningrad.
• clinical pharmacologists:
  • Gusel William Anatolyevich (born in 1941) is a professor at the Department of Pharmacology and the head of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at LPMI.
  • Irina Markova (1923-2010) - Professor, Head of the Department of Pharmacology, LPMI.
• Health Organizer:
  • Veselov Nikolay Glebovich (1940-1996) - professor, organizer and head of the department of social pediatrics at LPMI.
• Heads of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute:
  • Alferov Vyacheslav Petrovich (genus: 1930) - professor, rector of the LPMI;

• Tarasov Oleg Feodosievich (1924-1999) - associate professor, vice-rector for scientific work of the LPMI;
• Timofeeva, Galina Aleksandrovna (1921-1985) - professor of the department of childhood infections and rector of LPMI, director

Research Institute of Children's Infections.

New realities required changes and the main tasks of the Company ^[10] :

• development of international scientific cooperation in the field of pediatrics, including participation in international meetings and congresses, the organization of special exhibitions and seminars with the participation of domestic and foreign specialists;
• analysis, synthesis and promotion of the results of scientific research in the field of pediatrics, promoting the development of priority research;
• interaction with government agencies in the field of observing children's rights to protect their health on the basis of analysis of the effectiveness of existing laws, development of proposals aimed at improving legislation
• organization of congresses, scientific and practical conferences, symposiums, seminars and schools for young specialists, publishing activities.

In 1995, Igor Mikhailovich Vorontsov (1935-2007), professor at the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy, was elected president of the Society. In 2006, he was replaced by Professor Nikolai Pavlovich Shabalov (born: 1939) - head of the Department of Children's Diseases at the S. Kirov Military Medical Academy.

The most important event of the Society in these years was the appeal with which, on his behalf, concerned about the fate of pediatrics, they addressed the President of the Russian Federation . V. Putin, the leaders of the St. Petersburg branch, professors I. M. Vorontsov and N. P. Shabalov, as well as professor Yu. A. Gurkin ^[11] . Over the years, this appeal has not lost its relevance:

“... Today it is necessary to stop incompetent or crafty reformers and preserve the best that Russia has once presented to its children - well-equipped children's clinics and free round-the-clock care of children's medicine professionals. In the protection of childhood, in shaping the health of children, no commercialization is permissible; one cannot accept the substitution of the logic of commerce for the logic of goodness and professionalism so natural and necessary for medicine in general and for children in particular. And there is already accumulated worldwide experience, which suggests that all prospects for the future are determined by the health of children and there is no more effective investment in the future than investments in children's health and education. We do not want to believe that today the time has come for such an economic and mental impoverishment of Russia that we must encroach on the life and well-being of our children. Say your word, Mr. President . ”

- From the appeal of the Union of Pediatricians of St. Petersburg to the President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and to all who care about the fate of the Fatherland!

Currently, the Society has become the main and most prestigious venue in St. Petersburg where scientific congresses, conferences and symposia are held on pediatrics, including with international participation.

• Maslov M.S. Fiftieth anniversary of the Leningrad society of pediatric doctors. Report. - L., 1936 ;
• Maslov M.S. 75th anniversary of the Leningrad Scientific Society of Pediatric Doctors. Overview of the activities of the company over 75 years / Leningrad. scientific number of children's doctors. - L., 1961;
• The site of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia. St. Petersburg branch ;
• Shabalov N.P. 120th anniversary of the Society of Pediatric Doctors of St. Petersburg ;