THE LUBNY FIELD PHARMACY – THE FIRST PHARMACY IN THE LEFT-BANK UKRAINE
- Resource Type
- Authors
- I. V. Katrych; O. K. Maliutina
- Source
- Subject
- pharmacy
Lubny
- Language
- English
The Lubny pharmacy inherited traditions of the Mhar’s monastery. After the Battle of Poltava in 1709, the Russian Tsar Peter I made a brief stay in Lubny. He noticed an advantageous strategic position of the city. Besides the rich flora and traditions of the Mhar’s monastery suggested him an idea to establish a field pharmacy that could provide troops guarding the south of the state with medicines. Аrchival documents show that the Lubny field pharmacy was the first one on the Left-Bank Ukraine and eventually became the centre of pharmacy and cultivation of medicinal plants in the region. Traditions of the Lubny pharmaceutical industry were revived in the Soviet times.