First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg

History

The Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University was founded in September 1897 as the Medical Institute for Women. Money from the family of Lydia Shanyavskaya, a women's rights activist, provided the financial resources to establish the institute. Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff, an alumna of the institute and a niece of Alfred Nobel, also made a big donation in the initial years.

The University has changed names several times since then. It became the Women’s Medical Institute of St. Petersburg in 1918 and renamed as First Medical Institute of Leningrad in 1924. It was again renamed in 1936, in honour of Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov.

In 1994 the institute was upgraded to a medical university and inaugurated as Pavlov Saint Petersburg State Medical University.

During the interwar years, the Institute of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Institute of Pediatrics were established as independent units.

Research

Then, Women's Medical Institute, established the second neurology-related department in the country in 1900 under the direction of Vladimir Bekhterev, who headed the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases until 1913. It was then divided into departments of psychiatry and neurology. Bekhterev's student M.P. Nikitin took charge of the latter from 1913 to 1937.

Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University houses a number of research institutes:

Nephrology Research Institute

Research Institute of Pulmonology

Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Research Institute of Children's Oncology, Hematology and Transplantation

Maxillo-facial Surgery and Dentistry Research Institute

Valdman Institute of Pharmacology

Heart and Vascular Research Institute

Regional Research Centre of Neurobiology and Psychopharmacology

Scientific and Methodological Center for Molecular Medicine Russian Federation

Centre of early phases of clinical trials

Faculties

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty of Sports Medicine

Faculty of Adapted Physical Education

Faculty of Pediatrics

Faculty of Clinical Psychology

Faculty for International student

Faculty of Graduate Education in Nursing

Institute of Nursing

Faculty of Postgraduate Education

Faculty of Pre-University Course

Notable people

Faculty

Danylo Zabolotny (1866-1922) - pioneer in microbiology

Nikolay Alekseyevich Belyakov - professor and head of the Department of Socially Significant Infections and Phthisiopulmonology.

Alumni

Pyotr Anokhin (1898-1974), biologist and physiologist

Natalia Bekhtereva (1924-2008), neuroscientist and psychologist

Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff (1881-1973), physician and philanthropist

Alexander Rosenbaum doctor, poet, composer, singer and actor

Yelena Bonner (1923-2011), human rights activist

Vasily Aksyonov (1932-2009), novelist

Ilya Averbakh (1934-1986), film director, screenwriter

Sofiya Lisovskaia, Russian urologist

Tumani Corrah, Gambian clinician scientist

Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk (1877-1945), Ukrainian physician, writer, and translator

Gulsum Asfendiyarova (1880-1937), one of the first Kazakh woman medical doctors

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, former heath minister of South Africa