Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»1547Научная статьяPANDEMICS IN THE MIDDLE VOLGA REGION IN THE XIV-XX CENTURIESMatveevR. Sfaberte@mail.ruDenisovaT. Gtomadenisova@rambler.ruKozyrevaL. Lmuz@giduv.comSidorovA. Echebbox@gmail.comViktorovO. Nviktorovon@mail.ruInstitute for Advanced Training of Physicians, Cheboksary, Russian FederationChuvash State University named after I.N. Ulyanov, Cheboksary, Russian Federation171220213384508042022Copyright © 2021,2021In the ancient cities of the Volga Bulgaria, they knew about the possible contamination of infectious diseases by contact, there was a quarantine system for traders arriving at the Aga Bazaar fair, travelers, and wanderers. They were isolated in hospice houses for a certain period or removed from the settlement into the forest. In 1236 the large feudal state of the Volga Bulgaria was destroyed.Plague, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, typhus and relapsing fever, diphtheria, and trachoma were frequent epidemics on the territory of the Middle Volga. They raged unhindered from ancient times to the twentieth century. The fight against epidemics of infectious diseases began in the Soviet period. For this, infectious beds were created to isolate patients from healthy ones, infectious disease doctors were trained to carry out anti-epidemiological work. Disease prevention was carried out among the population: vaccinations, vaccinations, health education of people to combat infectious diseases.эпидемиякарантининфекционные болезнилечениепрофилактика1.Никольский Н.В. Народная медицина у чувашей / Н.В. Никольский. - Чебоксары: Нар. ком. здравоохранения ЧАССР, 1929. - 61 с.2.Государственный исторический архив Республики Татарстан. - Ф. 81. - Оп. 1. - Д. 139. - Л. 3-4, 11-15; Д. 276. - Л. 1-9.3.Алексеев Г.А., История медицины Чувашии / Г.А. Алексеев, В.Н. Викторов. - Чебоксары: Институт усовершенствования врачей, 2011. - 311 с.4.Алексеев Г.А. Обретение света. История ликвидации трахомы в Чувашии / Г.А. Алексеев. - Чебоксары: Институт усовершенствования врачей, 2008. - 248 с.5.Nikol'skij N.V. Narodnaya medicina u chuvashej [Traditional medicine among the Chuvash]. Cheboksary, Nar. com. health care of the CHASSR, 1929. 61 p. (in Russian).6.Gosudarstvennyj Istoricheskij Arhiv Respubliki Tatarstan. [State Historical Archives of the Republic of Tatarstan], Fund 81, Inventory 1, Document 139, pp. 3-4, 11-15; Document 276, pp. 1-9 (in Russian).7.Alekseev G.A., Viktorov V.N. Istoriya mediciny Chuvashii [History of medicine of Chuvashia]. Cheboksary, Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians, 2018. 104 p. (in Russian).8.Alekseev G.A. Obretenie sveta. Istoriya likvidacii trahomy v Chuvashii [Finding light. The history of trachoma elimination in Chuvashia]. Cheboksary, Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians, 2008. 248 p. (in Russian).