Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk was founded in 1936, with Lazar Lyusternik as its editor-in-chief. Initially, it appeared irregularly, with issues devoted to specific topics within mathematics together with non-research articles about the work of different mathematical institutes in Russia and abroad. Its third issue, in 1937, was devoted to attacks on Nikolai Luzin, but in an anniversary issue 24 years later this politicization of the journal was downplayed. After a hiatus for World War II, the journal began publishing on a regular schedule in 1946.[1]
Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk successfully overcame the economic difficulties of the 90s and today it is an active publication - one of the leading mathematical journals in the world. Since 1988 its editorial board is headed by S. P. Novikov (born in 1938).
^Demidov, S. S. (2006), "70 лет журналу "Успехи математических наук"" [70 years of the journal Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk], Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk (in Russian), 61 (4): 203–207, doi:10.4213/rm3273.