Anniversary all-Russian scientific conference «Histogenesis, reactivity and regeneration of tissues» (13-14 May 2021, Saint-Petersburg, Kirov Military Medical Academy)

May 13-14, 2021 in Saint-Petersburg, in the Kirov Military Medical Academy the 25th anniversary All-Russian scientific conference «Histogenesis, reactivity and tissue regeneration» took place. The conference was organized by the leadership and staff of the Department of the Histology with of a course of the Embryology of the Kirov Military Medical Academy and by the Scientific Medical Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists of Russia. This was the first face-to-face meeting of domestic morphologists after long months of the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19. The main goal of the scientific forum was to discuss topical problems of histology, embryology and cytology as fundamental sciences and medical teaching disciplines. The conference was attended by about 100 representatives of Russian scientific histological schools - morphologists from different cities of Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Orenburg, Tyumen, Arkhangelsk, Tver, Kazan, Samara, Ufa, Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Ivanovo, Cheboksary, Vladivostok, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Stavropol, Smolensk and others). Among the participants were the heads of the morphological departments of 27 medical universities of the Russian Federation, the Kirov Military Medical Academy was represented by teachers of a number of departments and employees of the research center. The conference participants were not only famous professors-histologists, researchers of morphological departments of research institutes, university teachers, but also young scientists, residents, post-graduate students and students. The conference participants noted the importance of treasuring up of the common research and pedagogical space, of the areas of research in histology, embryology and cytology traditional for the national school of histologists, the development of new forms of scientific research and teaching, which are based on digital technologies. The effectiveness of distance learning among graduate students and teachers of medical universities, taking into account the achievements of digital morphology, is beyond doubt, but at the same time students must also master practical skills in working with a microscope and microscope preparations, which is impossible with distance teaching. The Kirov Military Medical Academy as the organizer of regularly held scientific conferences of histologists, contributes to the treasuring up and development of traditional domestic areas of research, the introduction of scientific achievements in the educational process.