130 years to the oldest department of hygiene in Russia

Abstract

The article presents a brief outline of the history of the chair of general hygiene of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov. The characteristic of activities of the department as a whole and its individual members at the general historical background of the XIX–XX centuries is given in this paper.

Keywords

• general hygiene
• history of the department
• research and teaching activities