The article involves archive documents to restore at its most fullness the biography of Stepan Minaievich Khodjamirov. In 1938--1940 he was a former rector of the first Moscow medical institute. S.M. Khodjamirov was born in 1893. He participated in the First World War (1914--1918), in revolutionary events during becoming of the Soviet power in Caucasus (1918--1921). In 1923, he entered medical faculty of the Moscow first medical university, graduated it in 1926 and proceeded education in odinatura (clinical studies) and aspirantura (post-graduate study) under the guidance of prominent scientist and therapist D.D. Pletnev. In 1932 S.M. Khodjamirov is appointed on the position of deputy director on scientific activities and in 1937 he acted as director of the institute of functional diagnostic and therapy. In 1938 S.M. Khodjamirov is appointed on the position of director of the first Moscow medical institute but in 1940 he resigned office because of health condition and proceeded to function as associate professor of therapeutic clinic of institute. With beginning of the Great Patriotic War (1941--1945) he voluntary entered the Red Army. From July 1941 to September 1943 working as therapist of military hospital he headed Soviet underground at temporary occupied by German army territory of the Poltavskaia oblast. After liberation of the Poltavskaia oblast S.M. Khodjamirov proceeded service in various front medical institutions of the Red Army. In 1947 he was transfered to the reserve of military service and reinstated in the position of associate professor of the chair of faculty therapy of the first Moscow medical institute. There S.M. Khodjamirov worked until his decease in 1948.
Keywords: S.M. Khodjamirov; military medicine; rector; the Great Patriotic War; the first Moscow medical institute.