[Ilya Matveevich Kovarsky as a representative of the odontologic elite of Russia in the late XIX - early XX century].

The name of Ilya Matveyevich Kovarsky, the founder and permanent head of the First Moscow Dental School, the founder of the Moscow Odontologic Society, the editor and publisher of one of the first national dental journals "The Odontologic Review", the founder and permanent member of the Board of the Russian Dental Union, hundred years ago was known to every dentist in Russia. The article for the first time presents, on the basis of materials from State and family archives, scientific biography of one of the pioneers of Russian dentistry I. M. Kovarsky.