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© 2018, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved. This article was designed to overview the scientific and historical legacy left by Aleksandr Osipovich Armfeld, a Russian expert in forensic medicine and outstanding educationalist whose activities date back to the first half of the 19th century. А.О. Armfeld did brilliantly at the defense of his doctorate thesis which allowed him to soon occupy the position of the head of the Department of the Art of Medical Science in which capacity he was able to fully bring his pedagogical talent to light. The unprecedented capabilities of А.О. Armfeld enabled him to create a literary monument to E.O. Mukhin, the founder of forensic medicine in this country. This biographical sketch written by А.О. Armfeld thus far remains an important source of information of unique historical and scientific value and continues to be used in the studies devoted to the history and development of the Russian school of forensic medicine during the pre-reform period.

© 2018 Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved. This article is devoted to the life and professional activities of the internationally renowned forensic doctor Ivan Ivanovich Neiding who became widely known in the early youth as the discoverer of the microscopic diagnostic features of the constriction marks formed in association with hanging and strangulation. During more than 22 years (from 1878 till 1900), I.I. Neiding acted as the head of the Department of Forensic medicine at the Moscow University where a large number of investigations on forensic medical ballistics, toxicology, obstetric and gynecological expertise were carried out under his supervision. At the time when I.I. Neiding headed the Department, the academic process was for the first time organized in the form of the specialized studies conducted by concrete specialists. Ivan Ivanovich Neiding himself was actively involved in the practical expert work and participated in the development of the procedural basis of the forensic medical expertise. In the hard times of political reaction, he managed to strengthen the role and position of the Department that was officially redesignated as the research institute.

© 2018, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved. This article presents the materials devoted to the long-term history of collaboration between the Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise of the Moscow Health Department and the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Sechenovsky University. Special attention is given to the contribution made by the Department of Forensic Medicine to the scientific and practical activities, methodological and staffing support first of the Moscow forensic medical services and thereafter of the Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise operating under the auspices of the Moscow Health Department. Simultaneously, the influence of the work of the Moscow Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise on the development and improvement of the scientific, methodological, and pedagogical activities of the Russia’s oldest Department of Forensic Medicine is overviewed. The personal contribution of the most prominent forensic medical experts and physicians of Moscow to medical science and practice is illustrated by concrete examples.