The objective: to study the genetic determinants of rifampicin resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis by sequencing RRDR rpoB gene. Subjects and Methods. included 651 M. isolates that were tested for drug suceptibility (DST) genotypic methods (gDST) TB-TEST (BIOCHIP-IMB, Russia), Amplitube-MDR-RV (NPK Sintol, Russia) phenotypic (phDST): absolute concentration method, BACTEC MGIT 960 system, Sens...