THE FIRST NATIONAL MEDICAL PERSONNEL OF KABARDA AND BALKARIA

сurrently, the study of the historical stages of the formation and development of medical personnel and the entire health care systemas a whole is one of the most relevant areas in the course of higher medical education. The significance of the problem makes us turn to the lessons of the past, namely, the history of the appearance of the first doctors, whose names and experience formed the basis for the formation and development of healthcare. The article attempts to restore the names of unfairly "forgotten" people who devoted themselves entirely to the cause of healing, as well as the history of the first national medical personnel in the region and their contribution to the prevention and treatment of the local population of the Nalchik district. The article is based on the biographical data carefully collected in the Archive Service of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic and other sources of the first well - known regional doctors from the indigenous inhabitants of Kabardino-Balkaria, as well as their contribution to the development of medical services in the region, which makes the work unique. The selfless work of the first doctors shows the history of the formation and development of traditional medicine and all health care in the Nalchik district of the Terek region in the pre-revolutionary period. Studying the history of regional healthcare development helps to better understand and evaluate positive experiences, and to anticipate the main directionsof its subsequent development.