The scientific and practical journal "Russian Journal of Veterinary Pathology" is being published since 2002. The first Editor of the Journal was Svetlana Goydenko, the first Editorial Board chairman was the well-known Russian virologist and epizootologist Vladimir V. Makarov. Along with the journal, the Editorial Board had been typesetting the weekly newspaper "Veterinary Consultant", which, in addition to purely veterinary aspects, dealt with the problems of veterinary service functioning, regulatory and legal issues, issues of legal protection of veterinarians, and veterinary medicine trade union movement goals.

The first issue of the "Russian Journal of Veterinary Pathology" was completely devoted to rabies as a zoonosis. This has determined the main focus of the journal in the future – diseases that are spread between animals and humans.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the "Russian Journal of Veterinary Pathology" and the journal "Veterinary Medicine" remained the only scientific publications designated exclusively to the issues of veterinary medicine.

Since 2009, the journal is headed by Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Alexey M. Ermakov. Deputy Chief Editor is Doctor of Biological Sciences Polina V. Aksenova.

In 2011, the journal became a peer-reviewed scientific publication, where the results of dissertations presented for seeking science degree with the Dissertation Councils on veterinary, biological and agricultural sciences have been published.

Starting from the first national and then international symposium "One Health", the journal has been systematically, consistently and persistently supporting and developing the idea of ​​a joint scientific platform for communication between doctors, biologists and veterinarians in a joint fight against biological threats in the modern world.

The journal took the initiative to re-establish the honorary title of "Honorary Veterinarian of the Russian Federation", unfairly excluded from the state award system in 2010. To achieve the result, the Journal's staff had been collecting signatures for a long time, drew up petitions, and raised the issue at the sectoral professional meetings.

The Editor-in-Chief had personally addressed President Vladimir V. Putin during his visit to the city of Rostov-on-Don. Due to the joint efforts of the concerned representatives of the veterinary communities, in 2021, the Executive Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. 280 of May 17 on the establishment of the title was issued.

The works of such masters of veterinary medicine as Professor Viktor A. Vedernikov, Academician Mikhail I. Gulyukin, Professor Vladimir V. Makarov, Professor Vasily V. Sochnev were published in the Journal.

A world-famous epizootologist, the author of “Theory of the Epizootic Process”, Simon I. Dzhupina, was among the authors who regularly published his works in the Journal. His articles "Anthrax and Dogmas in the Study of Its Epizootic Process", "The Role of Bacteria L-Forms in the Epizootic Process of Diseases in Productive Animals", "Ecology as the Fundamentals of Epizootic Process", a series of brilliant works on the epizootology of anthrax, brucellosis, tuberculosis, leukemia, Newcastle disease, pasteurellosis and hemorrhagic septicemia have been the highlights of many issues of the "Russian Journal of Veterinary Pathology".