From 1929 to 1932, the head of the department was Professor V.I.Oshkaderov.After his departure, for a year the duties of the head of the department were performed by assistant P.V.Nikolaev.
Normal anatomy
The Department of Normal Anatomy was founded in 1920.Its organizer and first professor was K.N.Malinovsky, who worked at the department from 1920 to 1922.
From 1922 to 1928, the department was headed by Professor V.V.Bobbin.
And from 1928 to 1929 - Professor G.N.Lukyanov (part-time), who at that time headed the department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy.
From 1933 to 1965, the department was headed by Professor Vladimir Sergeevich Popov, a former associate professor of the Department of Anatomy at the Rostov Medical Institute, where he had worked for 16 years until that time.V.S.Popov was for a long time the dean of the medical faculty and vice-rector for academic affairs.At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, many employees of the department went to the front, and at the end of November 1941 the department, together with the institute, was evacuated to Yerevan, where work continued until the end of April 1942.The department staff under the leadership of Professor V.S.Popov was able to remove and preserve the most valuable equipment, as well as tables, atlases, textbooks, and anatomical manuals.
After 1965 and until 1972, the department was headed by Professor Nikolai Nikolaevich Lavrov.
Then Professor Viktor Alekseevich Latyshev (1972–1984).
From 1984 to 2012, the department was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Zhanna Konstantinovna Lopunova, author of 185 scientific papers.Area of scientific interests of Lopunova Zh.K.is the study of the chronobiology of mast cells in normal, experimental and pathological conditions.
Since 2012 head.Department of Normal Anatomy – Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Baibakov Sergey Egorovich.Area of scientific interests: identifying patterns of postnatal morphogenesis of the human brain and skull, using modern visualization methods in anatomical studies.