Silver jubilee of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Kazan State Medical University

At the turn of the century, 25 years have passed since that significant day, when in 1975 the first admission of students to the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Kazan State Medical University (then - the Institute) was carried out. The need to create such a faculty was dictated by the fact that the pharmaceutical faculties and institutes of the Soviet Union that existed by that time could not meet the needs of the Republic of Tatarstan and neighboring regions in highly qualified pharmaceutical specialists. Its opening in Kazan was associated with the presence of a higher medical educational institution with an established pharmacological school, an internationally recognized scientific school of organic chemists headed by academicians A.E. Arbuzov and B.A. Arbuzov, a developed chemical industry, as well as a large chemical and pharmaceutical enterprise. However, no matter how favorable these factors were, by themselves they could not lead to a positive outcome in the creation of the Faculty of Pharmacy. This event was destined to come true thanks to the initiative of several specific people, supported by the entire emerging teaching staff of the faculty.