Tambov Regional Museum of the History of Medicine
Tambov region, Tambov, St. Gogol, 6
About the company:
The museum was opened on December 29, 1978 as a cultural and educational department at the Tambov Regional House of Sanitary Education (later Tambov Regional Center for Medical Prevention).
A significant part of the collection is a documentary fund: printed periodicals and non-periodical publications on medicine, monographs and scientific works of the largest health workers of the region, manuscripts, personal documents and photographs, as well as rare publications on medical topics of the late XVIII - early XIX century.
The collection of numismatics includes personal state awards of Tambov doctors of the XX century, personal seals of doctors of the XIX-XX centuries. The museum has a valuable collection of medical equipment, tools and medicines of the XIX-XX centuries.
Of particular interest is the collection of the scientist and inventor Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky, the creator of the device "aeroionifier", tested in the poultry farm "Arzhenka" in the city of Rasskazov Tambov district in the 1930s.