The role of the Kazan hygienic school in the development of human ecology problems

As you know, just over a year ago Kazan Medical University celebrated its 180th anniversary. Today we are on the verge of the 65th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine and Prevention, the foundations of which were laid much earlier. In this regard, one cannot fail to recall that quite recently, in December 1994, we celebrated the 125th anniversary of the Department of Hygiene, the first in Russia. In those years, at the department headed by professors A. I. Yakobiy, I. P. Skvortsov, M. Ya. Kapustin, K. E. Dobrovolsky, I. A. Rammul and N. I. Orlov, up to 20 —The 30s of the 19th century carried out important studies of a socio-hygienic, methodological and methodological nature, devoted to various aspects of general and communal hygiene. If we use modern terminology, then already at that time the foundations of human ecology and environmental hygiene were laid - a priority direction of the multifaceted activity of representatives of the Kazan School of Hygienists.