[At the cutting edge of Russian pharmacy: from the department materia medica to the department of military-medical supply and pharmacy].

The authors presented a historical sketch abouth the department of military-medical supply and pharmacy of the military-medical academy since 1798. During the whole history of the department the academic staff has successfully combined educational and research work with solution of a practical questions of improvement of medical supply of the russian army and navy. During the different historical periods and on the basis of current requirements of military medicine and pharmacy it is necessary to develop theory and practice of medical supply and normative legal acts of the system of medical supply, to develop new examples of medical property, to develop manufacturing processes of medicinal products, quality management, to perform researches in the area of radiochemistry of medical products, forensic chemistry, toxicology, research of medical plants, medicinal water and etc.

[Professor Lev Fyodorovich Ilyin (140th anniversary of the birth)].

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries significant contribution to the approval authority of the Department of Pharmacy, Military Medical Academy introduced Professor Leo F. Ilyin (1871-1937)--a major domestic scholar and social activist, organizer of military medical supplies, physician by training, pharmacist, dedicated chemist and educator. Research, first launched in Russia by L.F. Ilyin, served as the basis for the production of morsulus--one of the most widely used dosage forms. Many works of L.F. Ilyin, his fellow workers and students are devoted to studying the structure of the active principles, properties and pharmacological action of wild and cultivated medicinal plants in Russia: herbs of marsh gilled, leaves of lobelia and May lily, roots and rootstocks of serpent grass, all-heal, pieplant, licorice, etc.