100th anniversary at the department of public health and health care (with the courses of science of law and history of medicine) Saratov State Medical University n. a. V. I. Razumovsky

The article is dedicated to the anniversary of the Department of Public Health and Health (with courses in law and the history of medicine). The presented historical review made it possible to identify the practical and theoretical contribution of the department staff to its organization and development, to reflect the main stages of the formation of work aimed at training doctors - health organizers and health education among residents of the region. New data have been put into circulation, which previously remained outside the framework of scientific research and literature. The source study base of the article was the works written in the first quarter of the last century by prominent figures of regional health G.A. Lapidus and K.A. Konovalov, as well as collections of articles published in honor of the 40th anniversary and 50th anniversary of the October events of 1917. All this, along with the use of modern literature and the latest publications, made it possible to systematize and summarize the data obtained, writing a historical review on their basis.