One hundred years of the Research Institute of Pediatrics named after G.N. Speransky

The review is devoted to the 100-year history of the Institute of Maternal and Infant Health, renamed for the Institute of Pediatrics of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and then for the Scientific Center for Children’s Health of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. The regularities of the formation of the state system of maternity and infancy care, the peculiarities of the reorganization of the Institute in various historical periods, the contribution of the Institute’s scientists to the development of domestic Pediatrics and the formation of the system of child health care are traced. The Institute of Pediatrics is shown to be the leading pediatric institution in the country, capable of caring for children’s health, creating new generations of pediatricians and determining the future of Pediatrics. The uniqueness of the country’s leading Institute of Pediatrics is the harmonious combination of the age-old tradition of fundamental and applied research in the field of child health care with the provision of multidisciplinary high-tech medical management for children patients, and the training of scientific and medical personnel.