Grigory Yakovlevich Kogan: Director of the Leningrad Pharmaceutical Institute in 1938-1941
On the basis of archival and little-known documents, the biography of a specialist in pharmaceutical chemistry in the field of galena drugs technology, was reconstructed in the article. Grigory Yakovlevich Kogan (1889-1956), D.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professo held senior positions in the 1920s and 1930s in the leading pharmaceutical institutions: the Leningrad Military-Medical Preparations Plant, the Leningrad Scientific and Pharmaceutical Society. In 1938-1941 G. Kogan was the Director of theLeningrad Pharmaceutical Institute (now Saint Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University), after the war, he headed the Department of Technology of Medicinal Forms and Galena Drugs at the Moscow Pharmaceutical Institute (now I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University). Based on the analysis of his scientific and pedagogical activities, his contribution to the development of national and world pharmacy and training of specialists in the USSR has been revealed.