"Journal of Obstetrics and Women's Diseases". Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow

In domestic obstetrics and gynecology, the last quarter of the 19th century occupies a special place: the first obstetric-gynecological society in Russia appeared in St. Petersburg (03.03.1886) and the first domestic "Journal of Obstetrics and Women's Diseases" began to be published (trial issue was published on December 11 .1886). The initiator of the creation of the journal was the chairman of the St. Petersburg obstetric-gynecological society, professor A.Ya. Krassovsky, who believed that "society needs to have its own printed organ like a collection or a magazine, which would contain not only the works of society, but in general the work of domestic figures in obstetrics and gynecology ...".