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»273610.25742/NRIPH.2024.01.021Научная статьяThe role of ProfessorN.M. Pavlov's eye detachments in eliminating trachoma in the Stavropol regionBodulinaNina A.nbodulina@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0009-0009-4018-9833KartashevAndrey V.andreyy_kartashev@rambler.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8522-49992Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Stavropol State Medical University», Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (FSBEIoHE SSMU)Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Stavropol State Medical University», Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (FSBEIoHE SSMU)1603202428113714225042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article presents information about the history of development of flying eye detachments on the territory of Russia and, in particular, the North Caucasus. The activity and efficiency of the squads under the leadership of Prof. NikolaiM. Pavlov and his teacher Prof. StanislavV. Ochapovsky in the Stavropol Territory are considered. The amount of surgical, prophylactic, consultative and scientific work of the flying detachments, their contribution to the provision of ophthalmological care to the mountain population, their influence on the organization of the regional trachomatous dispensary are evaluated. The period of ProfessorN.M. Pavlov's leadership of the Eye Diseases Department of the Stavropol State Medical Academy, his work on the development of students' interest in the fight against trachoma and attracting them to work in the flying eye squads is studied. Attention is focused on the result of Pavlov's professional activity the reduction of disability of the population of Stavropol from trachoma, and then the complete elimination of the disease in the territory of the region.</p>ophthalmologytrachomaflying eye detachmentsPavlov N.M.Ochapovsky S.V.офтальмологиятрахомалетучие глазные отрядыПавлов Николай МихайловичОчаповский Станислав Владимирович1.Report of the Special Department for the Prevention of Blindness for 1901 / edit. Prof. L.G.Bellarminov. St. Petersburg; 1902. 142 p. (in Russian).2.3.Boyko E.V., Kirillov Y.A., Reituzov V.A. L.G. Bellarminov (to the 155th anniversary of his birth). Ophthalmologic bulletins. [Oftalmologicheskiye vedomosti]. 2014;7(3)93—101 (in Russian).4.5.Korenyak N.L., Cherednichenko G.V. Pages of history of ophthalmology of the Stavropol Territory. Proceedings of the Russian Military Medical Academy. [Izvestiya Rossiyskoy voyenno-medicheskoy akademii]. 2018;37(2):130—133 (in Russian).6.7.Proceedings of the first congress of doctors of Stavropol province. Stavropol; Typ. Prov. Board; 1902. Pp. 12, 65—85 (in Russian).8.9.Krist E.I. Report on the activities of the eye unit of the Trusteeship of Empress Maria Alexandrovna for the blind in Alexandrovsky district of Stavropol province in 1907. Stavropol: Typ. Prov. Board; 1908. P.4 (in Russian).10.11.Large Medical Encyclopedia / Ed. by B.V.Petrovsky. In 30 vol. Vol.18. М.: Soviet Encyclopedia; 1982. 528 p. (in Russian).12.13.Pavlov N.M. Trachoma. Ashgabat; 1941. 63 p. (in Russian).14.15.Ochapovsky, S.V. Eye diseases, especially trachoma in North Ossetia. Proceedings of the North Ossetian Research Institute. [Izvestiya Severo-Osetinskogo NII]. 1932;(4):84—101 (in Russian).16.17.Pavlov N.M.Contribution to the common cause. For Medical Personnel (newspaper of the Stavropol State Medical Institute). [Za meditsinskie kadry (gazeta Stavropol'skogo gosudarstvennogo meditsinskogo instituta)]. 1968;(December 20):3 (in Russian).18.19.Kagermazova R.V. Eye diseases according to the data of the clinic (from 1943 to 1946 inclusive). Theses of reports at the scientific session on May 24—26, 1947. Stavropol; 1947. P.32—33 (in Russian).