Formation and development of the State pharmacy service in Minsk (1918-1944)

An article is dedicated by 100-year anniversary of establishment of the Republican commercial and industrial unitary company “BELPHARMATSIYA”. The article presents brief historical information about administrative-territorial structure of Belarus, socialist transformation in pharmacy in difficult military, political and economic conditions: formation of pharmacy management bodies, nationalization of pharmacies in Minsk, formation of self-accounting pharmacy administration in 1922 and its reorganization in subsequent years. Specify difficulties in work of pharmacy administration due to lack of medicines, pharmaceutical personal and overcoming them. Reflected clandestine activities of pharmacists in the years of Great Patriotic War.