A brief history of the department

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was formed in August 2004 by order of the rector №242-p on the basis of the Department of Special Natural Sciences Disciplines. The department is an educational and scientific structural unit of the Faculty of Medicine of KRSU, carrying out educational, methodological and research work.

From the day of the founding of the department until September 2016, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was headed by Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Enver Mamudovich Kuchuk. Since September 2016, the department has been headed by Natalya Sergeevna Matyushchenko, Ph.D., Associate Professor.

By order №74-p dated April 29, 2096, the Department of SEND Head was formed within the Faculty of Medicine. department, associate professor E.M. Kuchuk. The department provided teaching in the following disciplines: biology with ecology, higher mathematics and biophysics, general, bioorganic and biological chemistry. Due to the lack of a laboratory base, classes in these subjects were conducted on the basis of KSMA.

• C May to September 1996 employees of the department organized a chemical laboratory in building №6 KRSU. Most of the equipment, instruments, apparatus and chemical reagents were acquired through the efforts of department employees.
• In 1999 the department was allocated premises in building №7, where laboratories of biophysics, biology and clinical biochemistry were organized. The material and technical support of these laboratories was carried out by Associate Professor E.M. Kuchuk, Associate Professor A.V. Chekhovsky, Ph.D. T.E. Kuchuk, A.E. Kuchuk, Ph.D. senior teacher A.A. Plishkin and Professor V.N. Kobzar.
• 1.09.04 (pr. №242-p) department «General and Medical Chemistry» reorganized on the basis of the SEND department. In building №11, premises were allocated for conducting classes in chemistry and biochemistry. Logistics support for conducting classes   organized by employees of the department (NI). Chevgun, S.T. Kupreeva, I.N. Vasyatina et al.).
• By order №284-p  dated September 27, 2011, the Department of General and Medicinal Chemistry was renamed the Department of  Chemistry and Biochemistry. The department still operates under this name.