60 anniversary of the foundation of the Department of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences

The Department of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences was established in 1963. The first academic secretary appointed was V.N. Chernigovsky. The article discusses the functions of the department, its leaders, and the development of physiology until 2002, when as a result of the RAS reform, 3 departments, including the Department of Physiology, were merged into the Department of Biological Sciences of the RAS. In 2011, a new department was created – the Department of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine of the RAS.