The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research Institute was founded November 30, 1920.

In 1921, there were 52 researchers and 28 technicians working at the Institute.

From the time of foundation, the Institute began developing as a complex scientific research Center that aimed at both the creation of new chemical and pharmaceutical medicines (both synthetic and natural), and their adoption to medical practice and industrial production.

In 1937 the Institute was renamed the All-Union Chemical-Pharmaceutical Research Institute named after S. Ordzhonikidse.

The governmental decree of April 14, 1989 transformed the Institute into the Center for Drug Chemistry, and from March 3, 1998 the Institute obtained the status of the State Unitary Institution.

During the years of the Institute’s activity, 60 entirely new (original) medicinal preparations have been created and introduced into medical practice and new methods of synthesis have been developed for 170 drugs used widely around the world in medical practice.

Among the original drugs created in the Institute there are such broadly used in medical practice in Russia and abroad drugs as pyrlindole, prospidin, arbidole, nibentane, quibenadine etc.