[Formation of neurology in the Daghestan (to the 85th anniversary of the Department of Nervous Diseases, Medical Genetics and Neurosurgery, Daghestan State Medical University)].

The article describes the history of the Department of Nervous Diseases, Medical Genetics and Neurosurgery of the Daghestan State Medical University on the basis of literature data and archival sources introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The department, created in 1936, has gone through a difficult path in its formation and development. The authors reconstruct the history of the formation of this department of the university, dwelling on the problems faced by its first employees.