All-Ukrainian Ophthalmological Congress

Dr. A. B Kolenko (Kazan).
Repeated speeches at conferences, congresses, in the press brought to life the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on the regulation of the congresses taking place in the Republic. The abundance of reports, of which many are not even heard, the crumpledness of the debates, the overload of the meetings do not allow those who have gathered to take much from the congress. One of the adjustments introduced by life is the organization of small-scale congresses — district, territorial, regional, at which local issues are worked out and thus material for the All-Union congresses is screened out. Such a regional congress was the All-Ukrainian congress of ophthalmologists, which took place in Kharkov on December 27-31, 929. It didn't quite live up to its name. Although out of 320 delegates there were 257 (80.8%) from Ukraine, other places of the Union were represented so fully (Far-Eastern Territory, Tatrespublika, BSSR, Uzbekistan, the Caucasus and many others) that the Congress can be considered almost All-Union.