To improve control of hypertension and correction of lipid metabolic disturbances, current guidelines attach great importance to the increase of educational levels in physicians. Objective: to study the possibility of increasing the educational level of primary health care physicians (cardiologists and therapists) in Kursk in order to improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment of hypertension and dyslipidemia (DLP) in the long term (3 years later). Material and methods. The project covered all local therapists and cardiologists (n=144) from Kursk polyclinics. Specially designed questionnaires (surveys of physicians and medical records) were used to evaluate the physicians’ actions to diagnose and treat hypertension and DLP within the framework of the educational project following 1 and 3 years. For this purpose, Moscow and Kursk experts held seminars on current guidelines, by taking into account the physicians’ knowledge needs in each polyclinic, in each of the 8 polyclinics in the city during one year. The criteria for the effectiveness of the educational project were the attained goal levels of blood pressure (BP) and blood lipids (according to the data extracted from the outpatient records), as well as positive changes in the physicians’ actions to diagnose and treat hypertension and lipid metabolic disturbances. Results. Three years after the educational project, the frequency of achieving goal BP was as high as 39.6%, which was significantly higher than that before the project (p<0.05), but lower than that one year after the project (p<0.01). At 3 months, the frequency of achieving the goal level of total cholesterol was 38.3%, which was considerably higher than that before the project (p<0.01) and differed little from the values obtained one year later. The situation of target organ lesion diagnosis slightly improved. Thus, following 3 years, cardiac ultrasound was prescribed by 24.8% of physicians, which was significantly higher than that before the project (p<0.001), but lower than that obtained 1 year after the project (p<0.05). Three years later, the prescriptions of a microalbuminuria test dramatically increased (32.7%), which was significantly higher than those before (p<0.001) and 1 year after the project (p<0.001). Conclusion. The results of the educational project demonstrated its effectiveness not only in the short term, but also in the long term. Moreover, considering a slight decline in a number of the most important indicators of the quality of diagnosis and treatment of hypertension and DLP, the educational level of physicians must be constantly increased.