The medical community of pre-reform Samara

The author of the article for the first time introduces the biographies of Samara doctors of the late XVIII - first half of the XIX centuries to the scientific community. The research is based on numerous sources found in the funds of the central and local archives of the Russian Federation. The author reveals details of the professional path of Samara doctors, examines the features of their daily work, and explores some aspects of interactions within the medical community of pre-reform Samara. The study was conducted in the context of modernization theory. The author came to the conclusion that the formation of the medical community of the Samara province from graduates of Russian educational institutions intensified in the pre-reform decade. At the same time, the foundations of medical research, preventive medicine and sanatorium treatment were laid in the Samara province. Samara established itself as one of the centers of the increasingly popular trend in the practice of health conservation, i.e., kumiss treatment.