Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot158110.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-6-1388-1395НеопределенThe problem of quality of medications at Russian market (1992–2004). Report I. The control systemsIgnatievV Gig_vas@mail.ruZatravkinS Nzatravkine@mail.ruVishlenkovaE Aevishlenkova@mail.ruN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, 105064, Moscow, RussiaLudwig-Maximilian University of Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany091220243262804202528042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The archives of Ministry of Health of Russia, journal publications, interviews and memoirs testify that issue of quality of medications was key one in life of Russian Pharma in 19922004. The drug safety support considered not only as part of social policy, but also as rules that could be used to reformatwild bazaar into controlled market. The media disputes, departmental justifications, political bills and memoirs give idea about price of the issue tension of emotions, ambitions, financial losses. Furthermore, depending on one who would determine quality (therefore evaluate all players in Pharma market) depended where center of power would be located in the market. In series of reports results of historical reconstruction of building materials, architects and technologies of Russian regulatory system and market rules are presented.<br />The first report considers differences in modes of resolving problems of quality of medications in so-called socialist and capitalist worlds. Accordingly, what kind of controlling infrastructure inherited modernized Russian state from the USSR is demonstrated. The efforts of Ministry of Health of Russia to preserve and to strengthen this inheritance are presented as struggle for impacting market in conditions of resource-deficient space.</p>history of medicinepharmacycontrol and authorization systemmedicationqualityистория медициныистория фармацииконтрольно-разрешительная системакачество лекарств1.Federal Register of June 20. 1963;28(120):6385–7.2.Meshkovsky A. P., Aladysheva J. I., Pyatigorskaya N. V., Sapozhnikova E. A., Pichugin V. V. To the 50th anniversary of GMP: from the history of GMP rules (Message one). Remedium. 2013;(2):32–9 (in Russian).3.Meshkovsky A. P. Basic requirements for the correct organisation of production and quality control of medicines. Himiko-farmacevticheskij zhurnal. 1970;(11):60–2 (in Russian).4.Parkansky A. Russian pharmaceutical industry. View of manufacturers. Remedium. 2003;(3):69–71 (in Russian).5.About safety requirements for medicines, processes of their development, manufacturing, production, testing, storage, transportation, realisation, use and disposal [O trebovanijah bezopasnosti lekarstvennyh sredstv, processam ih razrabotki, izgotovlenija, proizvodstva, ispytanija, hranenija, perevozki, realizacii, primenenija i utilizacii]. Available at: https://pandia.org/text/77/165/19697.php?ysclid=lwerqstq63671547303 (in Russian).6.Farmacevticheskij vestnik. 1998;(13):6 (in Russian).7.Farmacevticheskij vestnik. 2000;(3):5 (in Russian).8.Press the button — get the result. What is the Unified information retrieval system of the State Inspection of the Ministry of Health of Russia. Remedium. 1997;(6):45–7 (in Russian).9.The unified system as it is. Remedium. 1997;(7):46–7 (in Russian).10.Khabriev R. U. Information support of the market: some results and prospects. Remedium. 1997;(9):12–3 (in Russian).