The activities of an outstanding sanitary doctor, a specialist from questions of hygiene and microbiology of nutrition, the great expert in commodity science planning and food, one of the founders of the section of medicine – hygiene of physical education and sports by Andrii Sulima-Samoilo is highlighted in the article. He worked as a professor at the Department of Hygiene and Sanitation at the Women’s Medical Institute (St. Peterburg) and the State Institute of Physical Education (Leningrad), at the Leningrad State Institute for Advanced Medical Studies, at the Leningrad University, at the Kharkov Sanitary and Hygienic Institute, at the Kharkov branch of the All-Union Institute of the Bakery Industry. At the same time, he was a member of the board of the Leningrad Scientific and Hygienic Vegetarian Society, one of the organizers of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Nutrition and the head of the hygiene and microbiological department, a member of the editorial council of the magazines «Hygiene and Health of Workers’ and Peasants’- Family», « Problems of Nutrition», «For Healthy Nutrition», «Food hygiene».

With the help of the using special research methods – historical-biographical, retrospective and source analysis it was established that professor A. Sulima-Samoilo during his life made a significant contribution to the development of different branches of hygiene as in Ukraine and abroad. To implementation his ideas in life, he used the department of a teacher and speaker, a research laboratory and production practice, as well as pages of scientifically-popular and general press. He investigated of the positive influence of human consumption of food products of plant and animal origin, which were don’t use. At his suggestion, wild flora, tops, invertebrates, internal organs of cattle, etc. were introduced as additional food resources. All these researches were useful in eliminating the problem of providing the country’s population with food in the late 20-th and the beginning 30-th of XX century in conditions of massive malnutrition and hunger, during the Great Native War. Numerous publications of the professor, covering the questions of microbiology, metabolism and nutrition, disinfection and disinfections, public hygiene and public legislation, and many others, were published in as a native and foreign scientific journal.

1. Vaisberh S. Ya., & Kedrov, P. P. (1933). Vplyv atsydofilnoi prostokvashi na perebih cherevnoho tyfu u ditei [Influence of atsydophilic plain yogurt on the course of typhoid fever in children]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 33–36 [in Ukrainian]
2. (2003). Vidrodzhennia zhurnalu [Revival of the magazine]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 1, 16–18 [in Ukrainian]
3. Vinokurov, S. (1933). A. F. Sulima-Samoilo [А. Sulima-Samoilo]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 1–3 [in Ukrainian]
4. Dubyanskaya, M. P. & Sviderskii, L. F. & Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. Surogaty chaya [Tea surrogates]. Izvestiya Komissariata zdravookhraneniya Petrogradskoi trudovoi kommuny – News of the Commissariat of Health of the Petrograd Labour Commune, 5–6, 38 [in Russian]
5. Dubyanskaya, M. P. & Sviderskii, L. F. & Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1918). Surogaty chaya [Tea surrogates]. Prodovolstvie i snabzhenie. – Food and supply, 7, 54 [in Russian]
6. Dubyanskaya, M. P. & Sviderskii, L. F. & Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1919). Surogaty chaya [Tea surrogates]. Petrogr. Nauch.-tekhn. izd. Petrograd [in Russian]
7. Dubianska, M. P., & Kotliarevskyi, M. P. (1933). Surohaty kavy i vzhyvannia buriakovykh zhmakiv [Coffee surrogates and the use of beet pulp]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 39–41 [in Ukrainian]
8. Dubianska, M. P., & Sulima-Samoylo, A. F. (1933). Zahotivlya produktiv pro zapas tsukrom [Provision of products for future use with sugar]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 15–17 [in Ukrainian]
9. Dubianska, M. P., & Sulima-Samoylo, A. F. (1932) Laktatsydofil'ne moloko [Lactatsydophilic milk]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 3, 7–11 [in Ukrainian]
10. Dubianska, M. P., & Sulima-Samoylo, A. F. (1932). Nayblyzhchi zavdannya kondyterskoho vyrobnytstva [The next tasks of confectionery production]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4-5, 30–35 [in Ukrainian]
11. Zakina, I. L. & Kalmykova, M. V. & Lokshyna, S. S. (1933). Molochno-kysli dietetychni produkty iz sumishiv soyevoho y korov’yachoho moloka [Lactic acid dietary products from mixtures of soy and cow’s milk]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 23–28 [in Ukrainian]
12. (1904). K voprosu ob otsenke nekotorykh priborov dlya gazometricheskogo opredeleniya uglekisloty v vozdukhe: Dis. Na step. D-ra med. A. F. Sulima-Samoilo [To the question of the assessment of some devices for the gasometric determination of carbon dioxide in the air: Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine А. Sulima-Samoilo]. Sankt-Peterburg: elektr. Tip. V. Ya. Milshteina [in Russian]
13. Kahan-Yasnyy, V. M. (1933). Pamyati prof. A. F. Sulima-Samoylo [In memory by Professor A.Sulima-Samoilo]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 1. [in Ukrainian]
14. Kanevska, E. Z. & Kalmykova, M. V. (1933). Pro konservuvannya zhinochoho moloka [About canning breast milk]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 6, 21–27 [in Ukrainian]
15. Kyurshner, A. O. & Bosis, R. B. & Tsukerman, A. L. (1932). Zalezhnist kyslotnosty lyaktatsydofilnoho moloka vid temperatury [Temperature dependence of liactatsydophilic milk acidity]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 3, 18–19 [in Ukrainian]
16. Kyurshner, A. O. (1933). Sposib konservuvannya kharchovykh produktiv pro zapas tsukrom na kholodi [Method of preserving food for future use with sugar in the cold]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 17–18 [in Ukrainian]
17. Lokshyna, S. S. & Kalmykova, M. V. & Zakina, I. L. (1933). Vplyv riznykh kontsentratsiy tsukru v seredovyshchakh na zhyttyezdatnist bakteriy [Influence of different concentrations of sugar in environment on the viability of bacteria]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 18–21 [in Ukrainian]
18. Lokshyna, S. S. & Kalmykova, M. V. & Zakina, I. L. & Tsukerman, A. L. (1932). Vplyv lyaktatsydofilnoho moloka na floru kyshok morskykh svynok i shchenyat [Influence of liactatsydophilic milk on the intestinal flora of guinea pigs and puppies]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 3, 12–16 [in Ukrainian]
19. Lukosyak, Yu. P. (2017). Andrei Fomich Sulima-Samoilo – pervyi rektor Gosudarstvennogo instituta fizicheskogo obrazovaniya (GIFO). Stranitsy biorafii [Andrei Fomich Sulima-Samoilo is the first rector of the State Institute of Physical Education (SIFO). Bioraffia pages]. Lesgaftovets – Lesgaftvets, 1 (1692), 9 [in Russian]
20. (1928). Otchet o deyatelnosti Leningradsk. Nauchno-Gigienicheskogo Vegetarianskogo Obshchestva za vremya s 1 Oktyabrya 1927 po 30 Sentyabrya 1928 g. [Report on the activities of Leningradsk. Scientific and Hygienic Vegetarian Society for the period from October 1, 1927 to September 30, 1928 year]. Gigiena pitaniya – Food Hygiene, 2, 49–51 [in Russian]
21. (1932). Pro likuvalne vzhyvannya lyaktatsydofilnoho moloka dlya ditey nemovlyat. Kanevska, E. Z. ta in. [About the medical use of liactatsydophilic milk for children and babies]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 3, 28–31 [in Ukrainian]
22. (1933). Rozporyadzhennya Narodnoho Komisariyatu Okhorony Zdorov’ya z 31 travnya 1933 r. № 8082 [Order of the People’s Commissariat of Health from May 31, 1933 year N 8082]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4, 3 [in Ukrainian]
23. (1928). Soderzhanie № 4 zhurn. «Gigiena pitaniya» za 1927 g. [Gigiena pitaniya – Contents N 4, magazine. «Food Hygiene» at 1927 year]. Gigiena pitaniya – Food Hygiene, 2, 56 [in Russian]
24. Sulima-Samoilo Andrei Fomich [Sulima-Samoilo Andrei Fomich]. Biografika – Biography. URL: https://bioslovhist.spbu.ru/person/2568-sulima-samojlo-andrej-fomic.html [in Russian]
25. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1919). Voprosy prodovolstviya i zadachi zdravookhraneniya [Questions of food and health problems]. Izvestiya Komissariata zdravookhraneniya Petrogradskoi trudovoi kommuny – News of the Commissariat of Health of the Petrograd Labour Commune, 5–6, 14 [in Russian]
26. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1930). Kak otdykhat letom [How to rest in summer]. Leningrad: Leningradskaya pravda [in Russian]
27. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1916). Mery borby s nasekomymi, perenoschikami zaraznykh boleznei. (Kritich. obzor) [Measures of struggle with insects, vectors of infectious diseases. (Critical review)]. Petrograd, Tip. P. P. Soikina [in Russian]
28. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1906). Programma po voprosam gigieny, sanitarii i meditsiny v tekushchuyu Russko-Yaponskuyu kampaniyu [Program of hygiene, sanitation and medicine in the current Russian-Japanese company]. Kharkov. Vrem. med. o-vo na Dalnem Vostoke v g. Chite [in Russian]
29. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1928). Rezhim chistoplotnosti [Cleanliness regime]. Gigiena i zdorove raboche-krestyanskoi semi – Hygiene and health of a worker-peasant family, 8, 12–15 [in Russian]
30. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1918). Sedobnaya botva ogorodnykh rastenii severnoi polosy Rossii [Edible tops of garden plants of northern Russia]. Petrograd [in Russian]
31. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. (1930). Udarnost i gigiena [Impact and hygiene]. Gigiena i zdorove raboche-krestyanskoi semi – Hygiene and health of a worker-peasant family, 5, 10–17 [in Russian]
32. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. & Dubyanskaya, M. P. (1919). Dikorastushchie yagody severnoi polosy Rossii / Surogaty chaya [Wild berries of the northern strip of Russia]. Petrogr. Nauch.-tekhn. izd. Petrograd (рр. 18–31) [in Russian]
33. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. & Dubyanskaya, M. P. (1919). Dobavochnye istochniki chelovecheskogo pitaniya: dikaya flora i botva ogorodnykh rastenii severnoi polosy Rossii / Surogaty chaya [Additional sources of human nutrition: wild flora and tops of garden plants of the northern strip of Russia]. Petrogr. Nauch.-tekhn. izd. Petrograd (рр. 31–52) [in Russian]
34. Sulima-Samoilo, A. F. & Dubyanskaya, M. P. (1929). Zdorovaya pishcha i kak ee gotovit [Healthy food and how to prepare it]. Leningrad [in Russian]
35. Sulima-Samoylo, A. F. (1933). Do metodyky obchyslennya kharchovykh potreb lyudnosti [To the methodology for calculating the nutritional needs of the population]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 5, 24–41 [in Ukrainian]
36. Sulima-Samoylo, A. F. (1932). Do ratsionalizatsiyi vyrobnychykh protsesiv u hromadskomu kharchuvanni [To the rationalization of production processes in public catering]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 7, 70–71 [in Ukrainian]
37. Sulima-Samoylo, A. F. & Sheynkman, A. O. (1932). Diyetychni preparaty [Dietary drugs]. Problemy kharchuvannia – Nutrition problems, 4-5, 49–50 [in Ukrainian]
38. Tverdyukova, E. D. & Prokhorova, E. V. (2016). Pishchevye surrogaty v prodovolstvennom ratsione grazhdan Sovetskoi Rossii v gody Grazhdanskoi voiny (1918-1921) [Food surrogates in the food ration of citizens of Soviet Russia during the Civil War (1918-1921)]. Genesis: istoricheskie issledovaniya – Genesis: Historical Research, 6, 195–205. DOI: 10.7256/2409-868X.2016.6.21249 URL: https://nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=21249 [in Russian]
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