Krasnoyarsk State Medical University is a leading higher medical University in Siberia and the Far East region. Krasnoyarsk State Medical University holds 17th place in Medical Universities of Russian Federation and 3rd place in Siberia and the Far East region. Krasnoyarsk State Medical Universityis a fusion of Leningrad Medical Institute and Leningrad Pediatric dental institute Krasnoyarsk State Medical University was formed in 1942 as Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute by the Order of the All-Union Committee for Higher Education. Till 1958 Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute had only medical faculty, but in 1958 the pediatric faculty was inaugurated. In 1978, faculty of dentistry, in 1992, faculty for Higher Nursing Education and in 2006, the Faculty of Pharmacy was opened. In its history Krasnoyarsk State Medical University has trained more than 30 thousand doctors, pediatricians, dentists, managers and organizers of practical public health. In the last five years Krasnoyarsk State Medical University has trained about 2,500 doctors. Currently the university enrolled about 800 students in all faculties. Krasnoyarsk State Medical University is constantly evolving. In the last five years Krasnoyarsk State Medical University has opened eight new departments morphological Centre, Laboratory of Anthropology, Institute of Nutrition, interdepartmental Biochemical Research Laboratory. Krasnoyarsk State Medical University has implemented new and interesting joint projects on international level together with other universities of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Japan, France, Italy, Germany and other countries. Today Krasnoyarsk State Medical University has 66 departments and staff of 690 professor and teachers. The origin of the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University was directly related to one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the country – the blockade of Leningrad. History of the University originates November 21, 1942, when, according to the order of the All-Union Committee on Higher Education at the People’s Commissars of the USSR and Health Commissariat were united evacuated to the city of Krasnoyarsk Voronezh Dental Institute, part of the 1st Leningrad and 2-First Leningrad Medical Institute, Leningrad Pediatric and Leningrad dental institutions in one Krasnoyarsk medical Institute. Formation of a new high school was held in stressful conditions: there was a bloody war, the front was not enough, not only shells and mines, tanks and planes, but also doctors. Accelerated organization Institute helped local governments, existing institutions, technical schools, hospitals, industrial plants, not only of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, but also in other regions and territories of Siberia. Only thanks to the nationwide comprehensive care institution created in a few days was provided clinical training bases, all necessary equipment, reagents, teaching aids, and began to prepare the medical staff for the front. Its first graduates – several dozen physicians who have received the wartime medical degrees in Siberia, six months later went to the front, to save lives on the battlefield, nursed wounded soldiers in the hospitals and the medical battalion. Many of those who graduated from high school in later years of World War II, also began his independent career path at the front, in partisan units. Selfless labor heroism Medical Institute organizers – former director of the Voronezh Dental Institute PG Podzolkov, the first rector, Professor NI Ozeretskoe (1942-1943), academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences AA Zavarzin, P. Kupalov Professor M. G. weight gain, associate BR Penkovsky, ZG Pirotinsky, A. T. Astakhov, NA Vargunin and many others. In the early postwar years, a huge contribution to the development of practical public health services and medical science have academics Kirenskii and IA Terskov a medical school department chairs, and then as the organizers and the director of the Institute of Physics and Biophysics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The enormous achievements of the scientists of the university – professors N. Zakharov, AM Dmitriev, AM Dykhne, AT Pshonik, II Gitelzon, YM Lubny, LL Rodnjanskogo, F. I. Kolpakov, RA Nihinsona, VP Krasouskaya; Topolsky associate VN, VN Zinoviev, BM Zelmanovich, OS Yukova – received great recognition, had a significant influence on the development of medicine in the region and in the country. A special place in the galaxy of the first organizers of scientists of the university by Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Ozeretskoe, “progenitor” KSMI, the first rector (1942-1943); known pathologist Professor Peter G. Podzolkova, head of the Institute for more than 35 years; founder of the Siberian school of surgeons, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Boris Stepanovich Grakova, led by the Institute for 13 years; Professor Victor Ivanovich Prohorenkova, who headed the institution from 1994 to 2004. One of the most outstanding personalities among the first teachers of Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute was Professor Valentin F. Voyno-Yasenetsky. The name of the doctor and the high-ranking priest (religious name Luke) honor not only to the medical community, but also all the inhabitants of Krasnoyarsk. In 1937, the war-Yasenetsky accused of spying for a foreign intelligence service and was sent to a five-year exile in the Krasnoyarsk region, in the village of Bolshaya Murta, where he worked as a surgeon in a district hospital. When the war started, Valentin F. offered their experience, knowledge, skills for the treatment of soldiers of the Soviet Army. In Krasnoyarsk, then a huge evacuation hospital was organized, and the war-Yasenetsky was appointed his chief surgeon, consultant to all hospitals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In addition to round the clock at the hospital complex operations Valentin F. had time to lecture to students in the newly established medical school. In Krasnoyarsk, in the city center, next to the temple, where during the Second World War is one of the housed evacuation hospital, monument VF Vojno-Yasenetsky and university proudly bears his name. The surgeon and the priest Valentin F. Voyno-Yasenetsky became an example for all students of the Medical University – and a former, and future. Initially, the university had only a medical faculty. In 1958 it was opened pediatric faculty, and 3 years later – Faculty of Advanced Medical. In 1978 he founded the Dental School, in 1992 – Faculty of Higher Nursing Education. In 2005, on the basis of the dental faculty of the Institute of Dentistry. 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