[From department of military and military-sanitary disciplines to department of organization and tactics of medical service].

The article presents history of forming and activity of department of organization and tactics of medical service of Military-medical academy by Kirov S.M. for the last eight decades on the base of wide historiographic material, archival sources and not published works. There were analyzed objective suppositions of creation of the department, process of teaching of military-sanitarium disciplines in form of separated courses, on departments of military and military-sanitarium disciplines and on a separated department of organization and tactics of medical service. There was resumed scientific and pedagogic activity of the department, characterized it's modern state and scientific strength.