V.I. Borodulin¹, S.P. Glyantsev^{1, 2}, A.V. Topolianskiy³

¹National Research Institute of Public Health named after N.A. Semashko of the Federal Scientific Institutions Agency;

²Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after A.N. Bakulev of the Federal Scientific Institutions Agency, Moscow;

³Moscow State Medico-Stomathological Institute named after A.I. Evdokimov, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

The first stage of the development of the USSR Cardiology as an independent scientific discipline and medical specialty, covering the history of national Cardiology in the first half of the twentieth century, is analyzed.

Keywords: history of medicine, cardiology, twentieth century