The results of the competition "Best invention of the year" have been summed up. The competition is held by the Ministry of Economy and the Republican Council of the Society of Inventors and Innovators. The diploma for the first place was given for the invention "Method of access to the lower posterior column of the acetabulum" (M. D., Associate Professor, head of the research department of RCH R. Khabibianov and traumatologist-orthopedist of traumatology department №1 I. Galeev). The second place in this competition was taken by the invention "Method of operative access for isolation and shunting of the anterior tibial artery" (Ph. D., cardiovascular surgeon of vascular surgery department №1 of RCH M. Plotnikov).