HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE IN NORTH-EASTERN CAUCASUS
Psychiatric service started in the Northern Caucasus 180 years ago with establishing a madhouse in the city of Stavropol. In ethnic territories in the North-East of the Caucasus, the ﬁrst shelters for the mentally handicapped and psychiatric hospitals appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. Development of the Northern Caucasus psychiatric school is associated with opening of educational facilities for high medical training in the 40s, previous century.