Abstract
The article covers the 118-year period of studying the problems of tuberculosis of the skin and the formation of specialized medical care for patients in Leningrad/St. Petersburg since 1899. Special attention is paid to the development of scientific problems of tuberculosis of the skin resulting from many years of cooperation of the Leningrad lophosoria clinicians and scientists of the Leningrad Institute of surgical tuberculosis/St. Petersburg Scientific Research Institute оf Phthisiopulmonology.