Abstract
The article analyzes the history of the Regional Sanitary and Bacteriological Institute, which played a special role in the history of the formation and development of the health care system in the Autonomous Kazakh Socialist Soviet Republic. Sanbacin headed the scientific organization of the fight against infectious diseases and epidemics. It was an advisory institution of the People’s Commissariat of Health. For the first time in the research work, the history of the creation, formation and development of the Sanbacin is highlighted, its historical role in the fight against infectious diseases and epidemics is systematically analyzed. The work of doctors and employees of Sanbacin became an example of courage in the history of medicine in Kazakhstan.