 From 1941 to 1943, he managed the Department of the Biological Sciences at the Ural Forestry Institute, in Sverdlovsk.In 1944, Sukachev organized the Forestry Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the "Institute of Forest and Wood of Siberian Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR", Krasnoyarsk), which he led up to 1959.Sukachev also led the "Laboratory of Forestry USSR Academy of Sciences" (1959) and the "Laboratory of Biogeocenology" with the Botanical Institute of the AS USSR (1965).