Professor of Medicine V.M. Bronner made a significant contribution to the development of Soviet health care. One of his fields of work was social venereology. V.M. Bronner paid special attention to the fight against sexually transmitted diseases, training venereologists and dermatologists and developing the scientific fields of venereology and dermatology. In the creation of the State Venereological Institute, emphasis was placed on the systematic implementation of social-hygienic and economic measures aimed at the eradication of socially significant diseases