The article is dedicated to the first staff members and PhD candidates of Yu. M. Ostrovsky, the organizer of the Department of Biochemistry of the Grodno State Medical Institute and the founder of the Grodno Biochemical School. Special attention is paid to the high involvement of assistant lecturers and laboratory assistants in the scientific process and the influence of the scientific and pedagogical traditions of the scientific school supervised by Associate Professor V. A. Bandarin. The contribution of the department staff to the creation of the personnel and scientific base of the Metabolism Regulation Division of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR in 1970 and its subsequent transformation into the Institute of Biochemistry is highly appreciated.
A. G. Moiseenok (Mon,) studied this question.