A.G.AGABABOV AND HIS ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE KAZAN RESEARCH TRACHOMATOUS INSTITUTE
Professor Alexander Grigoryevich Agababov (1863-1922), head of the Department of Ophthalmology and eye clinic of the Medical Faculty of the Imperial Kazan University, the eye department of the Kazan Clinical Institute, continued the work of his teacher Professor E. V. Adamyuk on the organization of the fight against trachoma in the Volga-Kama region. In 1909 A. G. Agababov organized a free shelter for the treatment of trachomatous patients in Kazan with charitable funds. In 1915, he received capital from an Honorary Citizen of Kazan, S. I. Sapozhnikova, to open an Institute for the Study and Treatment of Trachoma at the university’s eye clinic. In January 1921, A. G. Agababov headed the organization of the Kazan Scientific Research Trachomatous Institute, laid its foundations in the hardest years of famine and epidemics, initiated the naming of E. V. Adamyuk. The article for the first time provides data on the work of A. G. Agababov at the Kazan Clinical Institute and on the beginning of the organization of the Kazan Trachomatous Institute by him.