Unknown pages of the formation of the Kyiv Veterinary and Zootechnical Institute and the Department of Veterinary Epidemiology and Animal Health

The purpose of the work is to investigate little-studied, unknown pages of the history of the development of veterinary medicine in the city of Kyiv and in Ukraine as a whole at the beginning of the 20th century. The material for writing the article was archival documents and research of Ukrainian scientists, historians, archivists, and encyclopedists. Epizootological, descriptive-historical methods were used. The fate of veterinary medicine specialists is inextricably linked with the historical events that took place in Ukraine. This is the fate of the first head of the Department of Epizootology, Professor D. E. Kalkatin. and the fate of Kharkiv professor M. D. Agalli brought them together in a fabricated case on the charge of belonging to the “All-Ukrainian Counter-Revolutionary Organization of Veterinarians and Bacteriologists”. A total of 17 people were convicted in the “case”, including 6 from the Kharkiv Institute of Scientific and Practical Veterinary Medicine. All of them were sentenced to be shot, which was replaced by imprisonment in the concentration camps Unknown pages of the formation of the Kyiv Veterinary and Zootechnical Institute and the Department of Veterinary Epidemiology and Animal Health for 10 years. Every year, the department developed was enriched with scientific achievements and scientists. The name of the department also changed and transformed in the process of its formation. Today, the department has a large scientific and pedagogical team; the new name is the Department of Veterinary Epidemiology and Animal Health