The S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (russian: Военно-медицинская академия имени С. М. Кирова) is a higher education institution of

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Saint Petersburg 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 ...

and the

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. Senior medical staff are trained for the Armed Forces and conduct research in military medical services.

History

Origins

The origins of the academy go back to the years of Peter the Great. In 1715, by the Tsar's order the Admiralty Hospital in the

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was founded. In 1717 next to in the Land Military Hospital was opened. Since 1773 surgical schools attached to both hospitals were operating. In 1786, those schools were consolidated into the Main Medical College. It became the principal training center for army and fleet physicians.

Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy

Unofficially, the year 1714 is considered the foundation year of the academy. The Medical and Surgical Academy was established by the order of

Emperor Paul I Paul I (russian: Па́вел I Петро́вич ; – ) was Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his assassination. Officially, he was the only son of Peter III and Catherine the Great, although Catherine hinted that he was fathered by her l ...

of 18/29 December 1798 on the initiative of Baron Alexei Vasilyev, General Director of the Medical College. It was decorated with a set of panel paintings by

Giuseppe Bernasconi Giuseppe Bernasconi (''Iosif Ivanovich Bernaskoni''; Russian: Джузеппе/Иосиф Иванович Бернаскони; 1778 – 18 March 1839) was a Russian decorative painter of Swiss-Italian origins. He worked on decorations in many p ...

. It was known as the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy from 1808. According to the order of

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, a member of the Medical and Surgical Academy had the rights, liabilities, and benefits of a member of the Academy of Sciences. PGRS 2 071 Pirogov - crop

Sir James Wylie, a Scottish

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, managed the academy between 1808 and 1838. His contributions have been commemorated with a monument which stood in front of the academy until the

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. It was later relocated and replaced with a statue of

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Imperial Military Medical Academy

In 1881, the Academy's official name was changed into the Imperial Military Medical Academy.

Ivan Romanovich Tarkhanov Ivan Romanovich Tarkhanov (russian: Иван Романович Тарханов) or Ivane Tarkhnishvili ( ka, ივანე რამაზის–ძე თარხნიშვილი, თარხან-მოურავი; June 1846 – ...

conducted some experiments there. In 1890–1901, the Academy's President was Viktor Pashutin, one of the founders of the pathophysiologic school in

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and of pathophysiology as an independent scientific discipline. The Nobel-prize winning physiologist

Ivan Pavlov Ivan Petrovich Pavlov ( rus, Ива́н Петро́вич Па́влов, , p=ɪˈvan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈpavləf, a=Ru-Ivan_Petrovich_Pavlov.ogg; 27 February 1936), was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist, psychologist and physio ...

graduated from the Academy in 1879. Since 1895 he headed Department of Physiology at the Academy for three decades. Ivan Pavlov NLM3

In 1904–1924, Nikolai Kravkov, the founder of Russian national school of pharmacologists, headed the Academy's Department of Pharmacology. In 1903–1936, one of the Academy's professors was Sergey Fedorov. The academy was also among the pioneers of medical education for women, launching the courses for nurse-midwives in 1872. Nadezhda Suslova, the first female physician in Russia, attended Sechenov's classes at the academy.

S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy

After

Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov ( né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and mem ...

's assassination in 1934, the Academy received his name.

Leon Orbeli Leon Abgarovich Orbeli ( hy, Լևոն Աբգարի Օրբելի, Levon Abgari Orbeli; russian: Леон Абгарович Орбели, Levon Abgarovich Orbeli; – 9 December 1958) was an Armenian physiologist active in the Russian SFSR ...

, one of Pavlov's disciples, led the Academy in 1943–1950. In 1956, S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy was united with the Naval Medical Academy established on the basis of Obukhovskaya Hospital and the Third Leningrad Medical Institute in 1940. The academy had six faculties, 61 departments, 30 clinics, 16 research laboratories, and two research centres in 2002. Late in 2011, minister of defense

Anatoliy Serdyukov Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov (russian: Анатолий Эдуардович Сердюков; born 8 January 1962) is a Russian politician and businessman. He was Russia's Minister of Defense from 15 February 2007 to 6 November 2012, and made ...

declared his intention to move the academy from the centre of Saint Petersburg to one of its suburbs. This decision was overturned after Serdyukov had been sacked. Russian Medical Military Academy in SPB

Graduates are commissioned as officers with medical doctor credentials. The institution also provides advanced training for mid-career military medical doctors and trains graduate students on the

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level.

Structure

The academy has the following faculties: *Faculty of Management *Faculty of Training of Doctors (for the

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) *Faculty of Physician Training (for Russian Aerospace Forces) *Faculty of Physician Training (for the Russian Navy) *Faculty of the Training of Foreign Doctors *Faculty of Training of Professional Doctors *Faculty of Training for Civilian Specialists *Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education Mo narznaki94 1

The educational bases of the branch are: * Educational and laboratory building * Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N. N. Burdenko * Branch of the hospital * 3rd Central Exhibition Hall ** Branch No. 1 ** Branch No. 2 ** Branch No. 6 * 2nd Central Military Hospital named after P. Mandryka * Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinical Center * 9th Diagnostic and Treatment Center * Moscow Regional Ambulance Station Since 1 September 2015, it has been working as a branch of the Institute for the Advancement of Doctors of the Ministry of Defense. 63 departments (28 military, 35 civilian), of which 31 are clinical, 17 are surgical, and 14 are therapeutic.

Support units

There are three support units * Base – The academy’s clinical base has a staff capacity of 2,616 beds and is represented by 16 surgical clinics (including 7 general and 9 specialized clinics). * Editorial office – Since November 4, 1958, the Academy has been publishing the large-circulation newspaper Military Doctor, since 1999 the quarterly journal Vestnik of the Russian Military Medical Academy, and since 2016, Izvestia of the Russian Military Medical Academy. *

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– The band of the Military Medical Academy is the official marching band of the academy. The band took part in many celebrations held by the administrations of the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast. In the Soviet era, the band won multiple prizes during the All-Union Competition. It is an annual participant in the

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on 9 May, a parade in honor of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad, as well as the celebrations of the Day of the City, Paratroopers' Day and Alexander Nevsky Day. Musicians of the band have notably participated in the filming of historical films and military-historical reconstructions. In 2019, the band, led by conductor Lieutenant Cololonel Mikhail Nikolaev, participated in the

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. In 2016, 11 territorial retraining and advanced training courses for paramedical personnel were opened in

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, Chita, Novosibirsk,

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, Samara, Rostov-on-Don,

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and

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Awards

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...

(1954) *

Order of the Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner (russian: Орден Красного Знамени, Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of t ...

(1968) * Battle Order "For Merit to the People and the Fatherland" (

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) (1974) *

(

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) (1978) *

Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland The Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Polish order of merit created in 1974, awarded to persons who have rendered great service to Poland. It is granted to foreigners or Poles resident a ...

(

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) (1986) *

Military Exploit Order The Military Exploit Order ( vi, Huân chương quân công) shall be conferred or posthumously conferred on individuals who have recorded outstanding and brave exploits in combat, combat service, training, force building, consolidation of the all ...

(

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) (1988) * Order "Friendship of Peoples" 1st degree ( Democratic Republic of Afghanistan) (1989) * Order of Antonio Maceo (

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) (1992)

Notable alumni

* Nikolay Anichkov (1885–1964) *

Boris Babkin Boris Petrovitch Babkin FRS, M.D., D.Sc, LL.D (russian: Бори́с Петро́вич Ба́бкин; 17 January 1877 – 3 May 1950) was a Russian-born physiologist, who worked in Russia, England and Canada. Career Babkin graduated ...

(1877–1950) *

Vladimir Bekhterev Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev ( rus, Влади́мир Миха́йлович Бе́хтерев, p=ˈbʲextʲɪrʲɪf; January 20, 1857 – December 24, 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best know ...

(1857–1927) *

Peter Borovsky Pyotr Fokich Borovsky (russian: Пётр Фоки́ч Боро́вский, 8 June 1863 – 15 December 1932) was Russian and Soviet surgeon and public health administrator of who worked in Tashkent, professor of surgery in Tashkent Medical In ...

(1863–1932) *

Eugene Botkin Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin (russian: Евгений Сергеевич Боткин; 27 March 1865 – 17 July 1918), commonly known as Eugene Botkin, was the court physician since 1908 for Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. He sometimes ...

(1865–1918) *

Alexey Bystrow Alexey Petrovich Bystrow, sometimes spelled Alexey Petrovich Bystrov and Aleksei Petrovich Bystrow, (russian: Алексе́й Петро́вич Быстро́в; February 1, 1899 – August 29, 1959) was a Soviet paleontologist, anatomist, ...

(1899–1959) * Nikolay Gamaleya (1859–1949) * Ilya Gruzinov (1781–1813) *

Alexander Dianin Aleksandr Pavlovich Dianin (russian: Александр Павлович Дианин; 20 April 1851 – 6 December 1918) was a Russian chemist from Saint Petersburg. He carried out studies on phenols and discovered a phenol derivative now known ...

(1851–1918) *

Alexander Dubrovin Alexander Ivanovich Dubrovin (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Дубро́вин) (1855, Kungur – unknown) was a Russian Empire right wing politician, a leader of the Union of the Russian People (URP). Biography A trained do ...

(1855–1921) * Boris Karvasarsky (1931–2013) *

Oleg Kotov Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov (russian: Олег Валериевич Котов) was born on 27 October 1965 in Simferopol, Crimean oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. After a career as a physician assigned to the Soviet space program, he joined the Russia ...

* Nikolai Kravkov (1865–1924) *

Vasily Kravkov Vasily Pavlovich Kravkov (Russian: Василий Павлович Кравков; 1859–1920) was an Imperial Russian Army medical officer, Privy Councilor (1917), and author of diaries of the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Biography V ...

(1859–1920) * Nikolai Kulbin (1868–1917) * Nikolai Kurochkin (1830–1884) *

Peter Lesgaft Peter Franzevich Lesgaft (russian: Пётр Францевич Лесгафт) (21 September 1837 – 1909) was a Russian teacher, anatomist, physician and social reformer. He was the founder of the modern system of physical education and medical-p ...

(1837–1909) * Artur Lossmann (1877–1972) * Alexander Maximow (1874–1928) *

Mamia Orakhelashvili Mamia Orakhelashvili ( ka, მამია ორახელაშვილი, russian: Иван (Мамия) Дмитриевич Орахелашвили, ''Ivan (Mamia) Dmitrievich Orakhelashvili''; June 10, 1881 – December 11, 1937) was a ...

(1881–1937) *

(1882–1958) * Viktor Pashutin (1845–1901) * Yevgeny Pavlovsky (1884–1965) * Victor Protopopov (1880–1957) *

Yuri Senkevich Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich (russian: Юрий Александрович Сенкевич) (March 4, 1937 in Choibalsan, Mongolia – September 25, 2003 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet doctor, and scientist. He is a Candidate of Sciences ...

(1937–2003) *

Christian von Steven Christian von Steven (russian: Христиан Христианович Стевен - Khristian Khristianovich Steven; 19 January 1781, in Fredrikshamn, Vyborg Governorate – 30 April 1863, in Simferopol, Crimea) was a Finnish-born Russ ...

(1781–1863) * Pauls Stradiņš (1896–1958) * Ivan Tarkhanov (1846–1908) * Andrei Tolubeyev (1945–2008) * Alexander Vinogradov (1895–1975) * Vasily Vorontsov (1847–1918) * Konrad Wagner (1862–1948) *

Jakub Wygodzki Jakub Wygodzki (18561941; lt, Jokūbas Vygodskis, he, יעקב ויגודסקי) was a Polish–Lithuanian Jewish politician, Zionist activist and a medical doctor. He was one of the most prominent Jewish activists in Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno). Ed ...

(1856–1941)

References

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