Acknowledgement: authors thank head of the museum and exhibition complex and heads of divisions of the VSMU's PM faculty for the data provided for the analysis, and their interest in the history of establishment of the preventive medicine disciplines at VSMU.

Author contribution: Yesaulenko IE — study concept and design; Samodurova NYu — analysis and interpretation of the results, manuscript drafting; all the authors read the results of the work and approved the final version of the manuscript.