[The head of the medical service must be the person...(To the 70th anniversary of N.G. Ryzhman)].

The article is devoted to contribution of major general (rear Admiral. - navy) of medical service Nikolay Grigoryevich Ryzhman (1944-2005), the chief of the medical service of the Northern fleet (1991-1999), to development of naval medicine, who would have turn 70 years this September. The constant analysis, and experience generalization of the medical services of the fleet connections and associations and aspiration to provide fighting capacity for the fleet crew - were a keynote of Ryzhman's activity concerned development and deployment of the new forms and methods of medical support and searching of ways to increase crew efficiency. The implemented methods and forms of organization of the medical support and scientific development of the medical support are used even now in the practical activities of the medical service of the Northern fleet.