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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-866X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2412-2106</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Joint-Stock Company Chicot</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">794</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32687/0869-866X-2021-29-6-1619-1623</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>In memory such power is hidden</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sherstneva</surname><given-names>E. V.</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>lena_scherstneva@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">N. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2021-12-10" publication-format="electronic"><day>10</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>6</issue><fpage>1619</fpage><lpage>1623</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-12-11"><day>11</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2021,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>The article demonstrates, using a concrete example, how important the testimony of a contemporary is as a source of historical research. The testimony of this kind, supplementing archival materials, is capable to refute commonly accepted concepts and to bring the researcher nearer to understanding the real development of events. Thus, the letter of our former compatriot, whose life was saved in January 1942 by virtue of penicillin, urged author on further scientific research, that resulted in reconsideration of conception of time and circumstances of organization of first deliveries of antibiotic to the USSR. Also. the explanation was given to certain facts related to the history of its development and organization of production in our country.</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>penicillin</kwd><kwd>antibiotic</kwd><kwd>lend-lease</kwd><kwd>historical source</kwd><kwd>memory</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>пенициллин</kwd><kwd>антибиотик</kwd><kwd>ленд-лиз</kwd><kwd>исторический источник</kwd><kwd>память</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Шерстнева Е. В. Создание «советского пенициллина»: о чем молчали архивные документы. Ремедиум. Журнал о рынке лекарств и медицинской техники. 2019;(12):16-20. doi: 10.21518/1561-5936-2019-12-16-20</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Шерстнева Е. В. Государственное регулирование цены на пенициллин во второй половине 1940-х годов. Проблемы социальной гигиены, здравоохранения и истории медицины. 2020;28(4):657-62.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>Большая медицинская энциклопедия. 3-е изд. Т. 18. М.: Медицина; 1982. С. 459-60.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><label>4.</label><mixed-citation>Шерстнева Е. В. Проблемы начального этапа массового выпуска пенициллина в СССР. Проблемы социальной гигиены, здравоохранения и истории медицины. 2020;28(1):152-7.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B5"><label>5.</label><mixed-citation>Шерстнева Е. В. Организация промышленного производства пенициллина в СССР. Проблемы социальной гигиены, здравоохранения и истории медицины. 2020;28(2):320-5.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
