The Pyatigorsk Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute (PMPI; , ПМФИ) is a public higher medical school in

Pyatigorsk Pyatigorsk (russian: Пятиго́рск; Circassian: Псыхуабэ, ''Psıxwabæ'') is a city in Stavropol Krai, Russia located on the Podkumok River, about from the town of Mineralnye Vody where there is an international airport and about ...

, Russia. It's the branch of the

Volgograd State Medical University Volgograd State Medical University is located in Volgograd which is situated in the southern part of Russia on the west bank of the Volga River. It started as Stalingrad Medical Institute founded in 1935. In 1993 it received the status of the Ac ...

. The institute is an institution of Russia in medical and pharmaceutical science and included in the register of universities of

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History

Due to the outbreak of the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

, in August 1941, the Dnepropetrovsk Pharmaceutical Institute with a big part of its material base was evacuated to

. At the end of April 1942, the staff was expanded by a group of teachers and students of the Leningrad Pharmaceutical and 2nd Leningrad Medical Institutes. In March 1943, the Pyatigorsk Pharmaceutical Institute was organized on the basis of evacuated Dnepropetrovsk and

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

universities. Since 1952, the systematic development of the material base of the Institute began when its laboratory building was expanded. In 1954, advanced training courses for pharmacy managers were organized here. In 1972, a new PPI academic building was opened. In 1994, the Institute achieved the status of academy — the Pyatigorsk State Pharmaceutical Academy. In 2012, the academy was renamed again (to the Pyatigorsk Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute) and joined the

as a branch.

Education and Science

The Institute provides training in the following programs: pharmacy, dentistry, medical practice, medical biochemistry, special (defectology) education, management, pre-university training, postgraduate education programs — residency, postgraduate study. Since 1962, the training of foreign specialists for the countries of

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and

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has been conducted at the institute. In 2013, the Center for World Languages and Cultures was opened at the institute.

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* {{Authority control Medical schools in Russia Universities in Stavropol Krai