Dear readers, friends and colleagues!

Today we celebrate the 115^th anniversary of our beloved and renowned journal Hygiene and Sanitation, whose history dates back to the beginning of the issue of Hygiene and Sanitation journal in 1910 by editor-in-chief Nikolay Fyodorovich Gamaleya. This is also symbolic, as it once again underlines the inseparability and organic connection between hygiene and epidemiology.

Congratulations to our readers on this date! 115 years is a very respectable age for a scientific journal, even considering that the history of its publication was interrupted for several years during the revolution and the Civil war. Since 1922, the journal has been published without interruptions, its issues were published even during the most difficult years of the Great Patriotic War and Perestroika.

For more than a century, the main mission of our journal has remained unchanged. This is the improvement of Russia through the scientific substantiation of issues of general hygiene, environmental hygiene, occupational hygiene, food hygiene, hygiene of children and adolescents, radiation hygiene, social hygiene and health risk assessment.

In the era of decoding the human genome, the rapid development of industrial and information technologies, as well as the emergence of many innovative materials, humanity not only discovers previously unprecedented opportunities, but also sometimes faces unexpected threats and health risks, and hygiene science faces complex challenges every day that require solutions, the answers to which we will search with you in current theoretical and experimental research and publish on the pages of our journal, always standing guard over the health of the Russian population.

I wish our journal further active development, more relevant problem articles, expansion of its presence in the international scientific and information space, attraction of the most reputable not only Russian but also foreign authors and growth of the readership!

V.N. Rakitsky, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Hygiene and Sanitation", Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences