[Gilyarij Ivanovich Vilga in the lead of the Moscow Odontology Society and the Russian Dental Union: a man of idea].

In Russia, one of signs of organizational formation of national stomatology as independent scientific and clinical medical discipline in the end of the XIX - early XX century, became emergence of profile societies. The most important role in this process played Gilyar Ivanovich Vilga, one of founders of the Moscow Odontology Society in 1899 and its chairman since 1900. He was one of initiators of organization of the Russian Dentistry Union and and unchallenged chairman since 1906. The article describes his public activity targeted to consolidation of all specialists in dentistry in Russia, to improvement of positioning of dental corporation, to perfection and prosperity of national dentiatry.

[The nontrivial approach or how physicians-bolsheviks treated kings. The Soviet medicine in the Arabian peninsula in 1920-1930s].

In the late 1920s, the USSR intensified its international activities in the Arabian Peninsula. The rapprochement with Arab monarchies provided opportunity to study political, economic and ethno-cultural characteristics of region by organizing transit of pilgrims to Mecca through the Soviet territory and providing medical care in first-aid posts at diplomatic missions. The Soviet physicians, in atypical situation of Arab monarchies, played important role as intermediaries between royal courts and the Soviet government, serving as agents of "soft power". The article considers causes of Moscow geopolitical interest to this region in 1920s-1930s. The distinctions of interaction between Soviet physicians and ruling circles of Hijaz and Yemen were explored. The humanitarian, cultural and geopolitical significance of these activities were examined. The article considers and explains, through optics of geopolitical approach, situational rationality that was applied by medical men when approaching treatment of royal personages despite ideological mismatch of this work with Bolshevism dogmas. The article consistently demonstrates, noting non-triviality of both locus itself and approaches to organization of medical care, how professionalism of Soviet physicians gained confidence of monarchs of Hijaz and Yemen in complicated conditions of competition with highly qualified physicians from Western Europe. It is emphasized that in conditions of Arabia, ideological attitudes had secondary importance, while such qualities as personal charisma and medical professionalism, which created solid reputation foundation for Soviet physicians, came to foreground.

[The organizational forms of the Soviet Mongol cooperation in the area of medicine and health care in 1920s-1930s. Part II.The operation of expeditions of the Narkomzdrav of the RSFSR].

The article proceeds to analyze the results of the study of organizational forms of Soviet assistance to the Mongolian People's Republic in the field of medicine and health care. The characteristics of organization and activities of the first, second, and subsequent medical sanitary expeditions of the Narkomzdrav of the RSFSR in Mongolia. The new archival documents are introduced into scientific circulation, allowing to verify critical assessment of activities of the first expedition under direction of A. A. Frantsuzov presented in in the reports of G. V. Ivitsky, the member of the expedition. The relationship between the second medical sanitary expedition staff, the Mongolian government and the Soviet physicians at Mongolian service are considered in detail. The role of medical sanitary expeditions as special form of Soviet assistance to Mongolia, allowing to resolve at the same time several tasks of local and strategic nature, and their contribution into the development of the Mongolian health care at early stages is highlighted.

[Soviet medicine on the pages of American medical periodicals: «American Review of Soviet Medicine¼ (1943-1948) in the context of relations between the USSR and the USA].

In 1943-1948 the American Review of Soviet Medicine was published in the United States. The journal contained full translations or brief summaries in English of the most significant articles from the Soviet medical press, reviews of Soviet medicine and public health practice written by American physicians, reviews of Soviet books on medicine, news of the American-Soviet Medical Society, as well as presentations by prominent Soviet medical scientists. After the changes in the political course of the USSR and the USA and the beginning of the Cold War, the American Review of Soviet Medicine was closed down.