Tajik State Medical University named after Abuali ibn Sino celebrates its glorious 84th anniversary. Describing the history of TSMU , it should be noted that Tajik medicine has an original history, the origins of which go back to ancient times. The treasury of world medical science was enriched by the works of the greatest scientists and doctors of antiquity, and above all Abuali ibn Sino (X-XI centuries), from which many generations of doctors and scientists of the world drew medical knowledge and skills. It is worth mentioning the important fact that the civilizations of the Ancient East enriched humanity with an invaluable heritage, without which it is difficult to imagine the further development of world history, culture, science and medicine.
It should be emphasized that from 1917 to 1924. 20th century Tajik medicine and health care practically did not develop: there were almost no medical institutions or medical personnel. Some therapeutic and prophylactic and sanitary and anti-epidemic measures were carried out almost exclusively by employees of the military department.
As part of the government of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1924, the People’s Commissariat of Health of the Republic was created (the East Bukhara Health Department was abolished). However, the newly created People’s Commissariat of Health had to start all over again, almost from scratch. In connection with the revolutionary events that took place in 1917-1918. also in Central Asia, the functioning small network of medical institutions was liquidated, and medical personnel left for the central regions of Russia. The formation of the Tajik Republic created real prerequisites for its political, social, economic and cultural development; in solving important problems, certain attention was paid to the protection and improvement of the health of the working masses, the solution of which began in the second period, which covered 1924-1929, when Tajikistan was still an autonomous republic. Immediately after the formation of the Tajik SSR (1929), the problem of training medical personnel arose. The first major scientific expedition to Tajikistan arrived in 1930, headed by Professor of the Central Tropical Institute E.M. Marcinovsky to organize the fight against malaria. The merit of academician E. N. Pavlovsky, who led and organized a number of major scientific expeditions to study parasitic diseases in Tajikistan, should be especially noted; he was the organizer and leader of the Tajik branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, established in Dushanbe in 1941. The first Tajik doctor, a scientist malariologist, was a 1931 graduate of the Medical Faculty of the Central Asian University U.M. Muminov. ) there was a problem of training medical personnel. The first major scientific expedition to Tajikistan arrived in 1930, headed by Professor of the Central Tropical Institute E.M. Marcinovsky to organize the fight against malaria. The merit of academician E. N. Pavlovsky, who led and organized a number of major scientific expeditions to study parasitic diseases in Tajikistan, should be especially noted; he was the organizer and leader of the Tajik branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, established in Dushanbe in 1941. The first Tajik doctor, a scientist malariologist, was a 1931 graduate of the Medical Faculty of the Central Asian University U.M. Muminov. ) there was a problem of training medical personnel. The first major scientific expedition to Tajikistan arrived in 1930, headed by Professor of the Central Tropical Institute E.M. Marcinovsky to organize the fight against malaria. The merit of academician E. N. Pavlovsky, who led and organized a number of major scientific expeditions to study parasitic diseases in Tajikistan, should be especially noted; he was the organizer and leader of the Tajik branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, established in Dushanbe in 1941. The first Tajik doctor, a scientist malariologist, was a 1931 graduate of the Medical Faculty of the Central Asian University U.M. Muminov. The merit of academician E. N. Pavlovsky, who led and organized a number of major scientific expeditions to study parasitic diseases in Tajikistan, should be especially noted; he was the organizer and leader of the Tajik branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, established in Dushanbe in 1941. The first Tajik doctor, a scientist malariologist, was a 1931 graduate of the Medical Faculty of the Central Asian University U.M. Muminov. The merit of academician E. N. Pavlovsky, who led and organized a number of major scientific expeditions to study parasitic diseases in Tajikistan, should be especially noted; he was the organizer and leader of the Tajik branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, established in Dushanbe in 1941. The first Tajik doctor, a scientist malariologist, was a 1931 graduate of the Medical Faculty of the Central Asian University U.M. Muminov.
In 1933, at the request of the Council of People’s Commissars (SNK) of the Tajik SSR, a medical institute was founded in the city of Stalinabad, on the territory of today’s Research Institute of Preventive Medicine. In those years, there were no secondary schools and applicants with completed secondary education in the republic, so it was decided to invite students of the first two years of the Khujand Medical College to the new institute. Among the students were Zikrullo Khodjaev, Usmon, Karim and Nabidjon Akhmedov, Shakhri Khaidarova, Sharifa Akhunova, Abdusattor Nurmatov, Zohir Olimov, Islom Maksumov, Yuldosh Juraev and others. Headed the Medical Institute A.V. Knak, who previously worked as deputy director of the Khujand Medical College.
Education at the institute was conducted in Russian and Tajik languages. Anatomy was taught by the only professor at the institute A.V. Tikhonovich, the student Z.P. Khodzhaev translated into Tajik. After two years of functioning, the university was closed due to the lack of appropriate conditions, in particular, a weak material and technical base, and a lack of highly qualified teachers. The students of the abolished medical institute were transferred in 1935 to the Tashkent Medical Institute.