There was a steady-state rise in tuberculosis morbidity in the Chelyabinsk Region in the 1990s. At the same time, the number of patients whose disease is untimely detected was on the increase and in some cases the disease is found just at autopsy. These facts result from the lower efficiency of tuberculosis controlling measures, from low training of general physicians in detecting and diagnosing tuberculosis, and from failure to meet the standards for examining all those who have fallen ill.