In July 1956, the Department of Human Anatomy of the Lugansk State Medical University was founded. From 1956 to 1984 the Head of the Department of Human Anatomy was Iryna Chaikovska - doctor of medical sciences, professor, honored employee of the higher school.
Under the direction and with the participation of professor Iryna Tchaikovska, the Department has carried out work on the problems of higher education pedagogy: "Application of the method of individual tasks in the study of human anatomy". Iryna Chaikovska is the founder of the Lugansk Regional Union of Anatomists, Histologists, Embryologists, and a member of the Board of the Republican Union of AHE. The main direction of the department's research during the period of professor Chaikovska's leadership was the study of cyto- and angioarchitectonics of various parts of the human brain in normal, ontogenetic, and pathological changes.
The staff of the Department of Normal Human Anatomy of Lugansk State Medical University, 1980.
1st row from left to right: Assoc. Prof. Mishchenko N., Assoc,
prof. Tchaikovska I., assoc. prof. Savenko L., lab assistant. Bezdolya L.
2nd row: Laboratory assistant, Assoc. prof. Kozhem'yaka I., Assoc. Prof. Mishchenko A., Assoc. Kovalenko, lab. Yenenko B.
From 1984 to 2010 the Department was headed by the laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine, doctor of medical sciences, professor Volodymyr Koveshnikov.
Professor V.G. Koveshnikov was a highly qualified teacher, paying special attention to problematic lectures. He prepared and published several dozen textbooks on normal anatomy. Under his editorship (together with Prof. I. Bobryk) the "International Anatomical Nomenclature" was published (2001), and under his editorship the textbook "Human Anatomy" was published in 3 volumes (in Ukrainian, Russian and English). Professor Koveshnikov is a well-known anatomist not only in Ukraine but also abroad. He has made presentations at international congresses (USA, India, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.) He was an intern at New York University in the United States. The results of his many years of research have been published in more than 600 publications, including two dozen monographs. Among them are "Dictionary of Terms and Concepts in Human Anatomy" (1980), "Medical Anthropology" (1992), "Skeletal Tissues" (2000) and others. The professor is the author of five inventions and 11 innovations. Professor Koveshnikov has trained 19 Doctors and 53 Candidates of Medical Sciences who work in Ukraine and abroad. Many of them have headed and still head the morphological departments: Prof. Y. Fedoniuk (Ternopil), Prof. V. Sikora, Prof. A. Romaniuk (Sumy), Prof. N. Kashyrina, Prof. V. Pikalyuk (Simferopol), Prof. T. Pavlova (Belgorod, Russia), Prof. V. Luzin, Prof. O. Bybyk, Prof. Y. Vovk, Prof. S. Kashchenko (Luhansk), Prof. V. Pastukhova (Kyiv).
Professor V. Koveshnikov is an academician of international integrative anthropology (1993), the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Ukraine (1994), the Polish Academy of Medicine (1998) and the Schweitzer World Academy (1991). Professor V. Koveshnikov - President (1998), and then Honorary President of the Ukrainian and Chairman of the Luhansk Regional Branch (1984-2015) of the Scientific Union of Anatomists, Histologists, Embryologists and Topographical Anatomists, Chairman of the Specialized Defense Council for the Defense of Doctoral (Candidate) Theses (Luhansk), member of the Specialized Council for the Defense of Doctoral Dissertations (Kharkiv), editor-in-chief of the journals Ukrainian Medical Almanac and Ukrainian Morphological Almanac, member of the editorial board of the journals Morphology (St. Petersburg), Problems of Osteology (Kyiv), Bulletin of Morphology (Vinnytsia), and others. At the same time, Professor V. Koveshnikov was the rector of Lugansk State Medical University from 1984 to 2003 and significantly improved both the material and technical base of the university and the quality of training of the scientific and pedagogical staff.
Under the leadership of Professor Koveshnikov (1984-2010), the Department of Human Anatomy developed a new scientific direction: "Influence of environmental factors on the morphogenesis of bone, immune and endocrine systems", the department received new premises with new technologically advanced equipment for the educational process (classrooms for dissection, freezers, cadaveric storage, fans) and scientific work (morphometric, histological, electron microscopic laboratories, vivarium). The Department participated in the development of morphological aspects of disaster medicine. This work was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine. The department annually hosted scientific and practical conferences "Morphogenesis of bone, immune and endocrine systems in the conditions of industrial region", "Biomineralogy". In 1998, the II National Congress of Anatomists, Histologists, Embryologists and Topographers was held in Luhansk, where Professor Koveshnikov was elected Chairman of the Scientific Society of AGET of Ukraine. In 2002, he was elected Honorary Chairman of AGET. In 1997, the Department opened a doctoral program, which was successfully completed by Associate Professor V. Luzin (2001) and Associate Professor S. Kashchenko (2004).
From 2010 to 2015, the Department of Human Anatomy was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Luzin Vladyslav Ihorovych was the first doctoral student in the history of the university
In 1987 he graduated from the Lugansk State Medical University. From 1987 to 1990 he studied at a graduate school under the guidance of Professor V. Koveshnikov. He defended his dissertation on October 22, 1991 on the topic "Peculiarities of growth, structure and formation of skeletal bones in conditions of chronic renal failure." Since 1990 he has worked as an assistant, since 1991 - a senior teacher, and since 1995 - an associate professor of the Department of Human Anatomy. In parallel, from 1992 to 1995 he served as the head of the post-graduate and clinical residency department. In the period from 1997 to 2000 he studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Professor V. Koveshnikov at the Department of Human Anatomy (he was the first doctoral student in the history of the university). In 2001 he defended his dissertation on the topic "Features of growth, structure, formation and regeneration of skeletal bones under the influence of some non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation."
Since 2003 - Professor of the Department of Human Anatomy. From 02.2006 to 09.2010 - Vice-Rector for Scientific Work of Lugansk State Medical University. Professor V. Luzin is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Medical Almanac, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Morphological Almanac, member of the editorial board of the Vestnik Maritime Medicine and Problems of Osteology. He has more than 750 publications, 6 inventions, 12 rationalization proposals, 6 monographs, co-author of a textbook on human anatomy in 3 volumes, published in Russian, Ukrainian and English. He has made presentations at international congresses (Germany, Poland, Spain, France, Finland, and the Netherlands). V. Luzin is the Deputy Chairman of the Dissertation Council D (K) 29.600.04 for the defense of dissertations in the specialty "normal anatomy" (in medical and biological sciences). He supervises 2 postgraduate students and has trained 19 candidates of medical sciences. Research interests: functional morphology of the skeletal system, plastic surgery of bone defects, morphology of systemic reactions of the body in response to fracture, ecological anthropology.
The staff of the Department of Normal Human Anatomy of Lugansk State Medical University, 2001.
1st row from left to right: asst. Tkachenko O., Assoc. Mavrych V., Assoc. Kozhemyak I., prof. Koveshnikov V., Assoc. Vinichenko H., Assoc. N. Mishchenko;
2nd row: asst. Kutya S., lab. As. Chereshneva V., assistant Skryabina O., Assoc. Nedostup M., assistant. Ovcharenko V., assistant Bolhova O., assistant. Pastuhova V., prof. Luzin V., Assoc. Chistolinova L., Assistant. Voloshyn V.
In 2010 the Department was headed by Professor V. Luzin.
The staff of the Department of Human Anatomy of the Lugansk State Medical University, 2011.
1st row from left to right: Assoc. V. Ovcharenko, docent. V. Voloshyn, docent. Mishchenko N., prof. Luzin V., prof. Koveshnikov V., Assoc. I. Kozhemyak, Assoc. O. Bybyk;
2nd row: asst. Kucherenko S., laboratory as. technician L. Savka, Prof. Fomina K., Asst. Belik I., lab Chereshneva V., Assoc. Chistolinova L., Assistant. Smolenchuk S., O.K.. asp. Shutov E., assistant. Yeromin A.
3 row: ace. Astrakhantsev D., Assistant. Skorobagatov A., Asst. Hladkova A., assistant Statsenko O., Stklyanina L., asst. Alieva A., assistant Hryshchuk M.
In January 2015 the Department of Human Anatomy and Topographic Anatomy was merged under the general leadership of Honored Worker of Public Education of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences Professor U. Vovk.
Since September 2015 candidate of medical sciences, associate professor O. Skryabina has been acting as the Head of the Department of Human Anatomy.
The staff of the Department of Human Anatomy of The State Establishment «Lugansk State Medical University» "LSMU", 2015.
Associate professor Skryabina O., assistant Korobko I., assistant Lytvynchuk O.
Since September 1 the Department of Human Anatomy has been moved to the Morphological Building at the address: 4 Volodymyrska St., Rubizhne. The total area of the department: 214,4 м2. There are 5 classrooms, a lecture room, a senior laboratory assistant's room, a room for the Head of the Department, an anatomical museum, a computer class, and a methodological room.
The staff of the Department of Human Anatomy of The State Establishment «Lugansk State Medical University» "LSMU", 2016.
from left to right: senior laboratory assistant O. Yeryomenko, assistant O. Lytvynchuk, assistant D. Ignatieva, associate professor O. Skryabina, assistant T. Salamadze, assistant A. Osmolovska, assistant Shapovalov U., assistant Shapovalov V.
At present, the Department of Human Anatomy has completely updated the departmental documentation, created a bank of test tasks to prepare for the KROK-1 exams. Methodological recommendations and instructions for lecturers and students have been updated in accordance with the new curricula.
Scientific work is carried out in the following areas: "Methods of manufacturing anatomical preparations", "Methods of teaching human anatomy using technology transfer", "Anthropometry". Methods of teaching clinical anatomy for first-year students using 3D images, CT and MRI.
The Student Scientific Society is actively working. The staff of the Department of Human Anatomy continues the best traditions of the University and strives to make a significant contribution to its further development.
In February 2022, the Department was forced to move to the city of Rivne, Simon Smith Street, 3.
Currently, the Department is conducting new work on organizing a computer class, updating educational and methodological content. The Department continues to record student work and upload it to the Youtube channel. The staff of the Department completed the research work of the Department of Human Anatomy - № state - 0118u004437 and in 2023 began a new research work "Features of interdisciplinary integration in the process of teaching theoretical disciplines in higher medical education institutions".
The department has two clubs: Human Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy and Operative Surgery.
