Donorium started with a post on Leprosorium.ru. At first, donor information was collected directly in a discussion: who was ready to donate blood, blood type, location, and contact details.
As long as this stayed inside one post, the data was hard to maintain and hard to use quickly. The next step was a separate blood donor database with profiles, compatibility parameters, and a way to find people who could be asked for help.
At first, the service was intended for Leprosorium users. Later, dirty.ru users were added, and after that the project was opened to everyone.
The site was often used when a post appeared saying that donors were urgently needed. Through Donorium, it was possible to message people who had registered in the database, matched the needed parameters, and could come to donate blood.
For the bureau, this remains a useful early example of applied automation: unstructured information from discussions was turned into a working web interface, while finding matching donors and sending messages became faster and more reliable.