[On improvement of legal regulation of personnel training in the sphere of state forensic medical activity].

Legislation and industry-specific regulatory documents of Russia, some historical aspects and current problems of staffing in forensic medical organizations were analyzed to improve legal and regulatory framework for skilled personnel training in the sphere of forensic medical examination. Changes in the qualification requirements to medical and pharmaceutical workers with higher education in specialty are proposed, namely to remove restrictions on the possibility of postgraduate training in forensic medical examination specialty for those who have received higher medical education (specialist's degree program) in «medical and preventative care» specialty, considering the interdisciplinary relationship between forensic medical activity and preventive medicine, common approaches to the specialist's degree programs formation and general medical thinking development in students. This will help to achieve the target of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation on provision of health care with qualified personnel and increase of staffing of specialists in forensic medical organizations.

[Professor Dmitry Egorovich Min - physician and poet].

Dmitry Egorovich Min is an outstanding pathologist, forensic physician and hygienist of the Russian Empire, a prominent public figure, professor and vice-rector of the Imperial Moscow University, an outstanding poet-translator and one of the founders of the Russian school of forensic medicine. This article discusses the biography of D.E.

[Forensic medical expertise in Petrograd - Leningrad - Saint-Petersburg in the XX-XXI centuries: the past and the present].

The Saint-Petersburg state healthcare institution 'Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise' (SPb SBHCI 'Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise') celebrated its 100 anniversary on April 9, 2018. This article provides information concerning the organization and management of the forensic medical expertise system in Petrograd, Leningrad, and Saint-Petersburg in the XX-XXI centuries. The data on the staff composition of the Bureau and character of its activities are presented together with the outline of its main directions and practical achievements.

[Forensic medical expertise in Saint-Petersburg in the period from the XVIII and the early XX centuries: the sources and organization of the forensic medical expert activity].

This article contains information about the organization of the forensic medical expert investigation in the city of Saint-Petersburg since the time of its foundation. The sources of origin of the first Russian service of forensic medical expertise as a component of the state-supported healthcare system, as exemplified by the Saint-Petersburg state healthcare institution 'Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise', are described.

[On the necessity of the development of modern algorithms for the evaluation of the injuries inflicted with scissors].

At present, a steady growth in the frequency of wounds inflicted by sharp injurious objects (e.g. scissors) is being observed.