1901

The Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry is established

1907

The St. Petersburg Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute is founded

1921

The Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry is founded

The Serbsky Institute, named after psychiatrist Vladimir Serbsky, was founded to assist with forensic psychiatry in criminal courts.

1922

New Russian Criminal code comes into effect

The first complete Criminal Code based on Soviet Criminal Law was established in 1922. Previously, in 1918, the first “Leading Principles of the Criminal Law” had been published, but this only gave some general rules and did not contain provisions regarding particular crimes.

1922

The journal ‘Pravo i zhizn’ (‘Law and life’) is established

1925

Publication of the article "Diminished responsibility in Soviet criminal law" in Pravo i zhizn

1927

First All-Union Congress of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists

1927

Various substantial amendments to the Russian Criminal Code come into effect

1927

The journal ‘Sovetskoe gosudarstvo i pravo’ (‘Soviet state and law’) is established

1929

Article ‘The Year of the Great Break” by Stalin published in the newspaper “Pravda”

1930

The First State Moscow Medical University is founded

1933

Death of psychiatrist Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin (1875)

Gannushkin was a student of Sergei Korsakoff and Vladimir Serbsky (after which the Serbsky institute was named). Gannushkin developed one of the first theories of psychopathies.

1933

Gannushkin, B. (1933). Psihopatii: ih statika, dinamika, sistematika. (Psychopathies: their static, dynamic and systematic analysis)

1934

Publication of Psikhopatii i ikh sudebno-psikhiatricheskoe znachenie. (Psychopathies and their forensic significance) by dr. Cecelia Feinberg

Cecelia Feinberg was the director of the Moscow Cabinet for the Study of the Personality of the Criminal.

1934

Founding of the journal ‘Socialisticheskaya zakonnost’ (‘Socialist legality’). Now called ‘Zakonnost (‘Legality’)

1936

Second All-Union Congress of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists

1936

First All-Union meeting on forensic psychiatry

1936

Adoption of the new Soviet Constitution

This constitution, also known as the Stalin constitution, was instituted with the goal to reflect the attainment of socialism in the USSR, instituting universal suffrage and granting based civil rights to the populations, on paper abolishing previous classes into life as equal citizens.

1937

Adoption of the decree prohibiting abortions in the Soviet Union

1937

Death of Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis

1938

Death of Prosecutor General of the RSFSRNikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko (1885-1935)

1941

Publication of Teoria sudebnyh dokazatelstv v sovetskom prave. (The theory of evidence in soviet law) by A. Vyshinski

1944

Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Medical Academy of Sciences (now The Scientific Center of Mental Health

1948

Third All-Union Congress of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists

1948

Death of forensic pathologist Nikolai Pavlovich Bruhanskii (1893-1948)

1950

Pavlovian session

1951

Death of forensic psychiatrist Evgenii Konstantinovich Krasnushkin (1855-1851)

1954

Birth of legal scholar and the USSR prosecutor general Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky

1955

Adoption of the ‘Ukaz’ decriminalizing abortions

1958

Publication of Kurs sovetskogo ugolovnogo protsessa. (Soviet criminal procedure law) by M. Strogovich

1958

Publication of ‘Sudebnaia medicina’ (‘Forensic medicine’)

1960

Adoption of the new Russian Criminal Code

1963

Fourth All-Union Congress of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists

1965

Death of forensic psychiatrist Oleg Vasilievich Kerbikov (1907-1965)

1965

Publication of Vvedenie v sovetskuiu kriminologiiu. (Introduction to Soviet criminology) by A. Gertsenzon

1973

Death of Cecilia Mironovna Feinberg (1885-1973)

1977

Death of psychiatrist Daniil Romanovich Lunts (1912-1977)

1978

Adoption of the new Russian Constitution

1987

Death of Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevski (1904), psychiatrist and director of the Serbsky Institute

1988

Publication of Sudebnaya psihiatria. Rukivodstvo dlia vrachei. (Forensic medicine. A guide for doctors) by G. Morozov

1991

Founding of the journal ‘Nezavisimyi psihiatricheskii zhurnal’ (‘Independent psychiatric journal’)

1991

Founding of the journal ‘Rossiyskiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal’ (‘The Russian Journal of Psychiatry’)

1993

Adoption of the new Russian Constitution

1996

Adoption of the new Russian Criminal Code

2012

Death of psychiatrist Georgi Vasilievich Morozov (1920-2012)