A huge contribution to the development of modern lymphology belongs to the great Soviet scientist Professor Dimitry Arkadyevich Zhdanov. He performed an active scientific and educational work, which was frequently review in different journals. In particular, the work of D.A. Zhdanov in Moscow and Leningrad were the subject of several publications. At the same time, the Tomsk period of the life of Dimitry Arkadievich did not receive wide coverage in the literature. In this paper, the authors study the results of D.A. Zhdanov’s work in Tomsk as director of the Tomsk Medical Institute named after V.M. Molotov, scientific progress of his students and their influence on development of lymphology.