Under the microscope of proletarian science: from the history of the fight against epidemics in the 1920s

The article traces the history of the creation and formation of the sanitary and bacteriological service in Sevastopol since the 1880s and up to 1931. This results from the need to update the experience of previous years in the conditions of the increasing threshold of epidemic diseases in modern society. The author identifies and reveals the areas of work of the first Soviet scientific institution in Crimea in the field of bacteriology and infection control in the first half of the 1920s. During the identification, research and analysis of documents of the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea and the State Archive of Sevastopol, the material and technical base was established, the personnel of the scientific and medical institution were identified. The study also focuses on the active interaction with the military medical service of the Black Sea Fleet and the Institute of Physical Methods of Treatment named after Prof. Sechenov, the country’s leading healthcare institution in the field of balneology. For the first time in the course of research work, biographical data of the first leaders, leading personnel of the Sevastopol Sanitary and Bacteriological Institute, as well as the chronological framework of the work of this institution in the city were established. The contribution of Sevastopol infectious diseases doctors, bacteriologists to the prevention of epidemics, the fight against various infections, typhus, tuberculosis, rabies, malaria during a difficult period of the history of the city and the country was also established.