[The formation of state institutions of health care and development of medical business in Russia in the second half of XVI century].

The article considers historical characteristics of process of origin and formation of the health care system in Russia as process of state organizational activities. The starting point of the mentioned process is determined the period of the second half of XVI century that initiated becoming of institutional foundations of the whole health care system in Russia establishing the priority of state power initiative in becoming and development of the given processes. The significant role of foreign factor in development of medicine business in Russia during the given historical period is emphasized. The role of English medical men in popularization of European practice of medical treatment at the Tsar's court and in becoming of state institutions of health care is specially emphasized. At that, the state character of formation of health care system in Russia is stressed and is considered as national feature related to paternalistic character of the state authority itself. The specific facts of history of becoming of national health care system are considered in the context of universal historical development. On the whole, the period of governing of the Russian Tsars of second half of XVI century - Ivan VI the Terrible, Fedor Ioannovich, Boris Godunov, - is considered as unconditionally positive one in the process of becoming of the state medicine in Russia.