First Moscow State Medical University

Coin of the Bank of Russia (silver, 3 rubles, reverse), series "Science", 250th anniversary of the Moscow Sechenov Medical Academy. Monument to Ivan Sechenov on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street in Moscow

The university was inaugurated as the Imperial Moscow University (Moscow State University since 1917) in 1755. It is named after Ivan Sechenov, a doctoral graduate of Moscow Imperial, who is known as the "father of Russian physiology." The institution became independent in 1930 and acquired full university status in 2010.[6] It celebrated its 260th anniversary in 2018.[5] The academy is a center for training, certification and further education for medical staff and pharmacists.

• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Pediatrics
• Faculty of Preventive Medicine
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Postgraduate Professional Training of Physicians
• Preparatory Department for International Applicants
• Institute of Professional Education
• Center of Master's Programs

The university was ranked #651 in the world by QS World University Rankings in 2021, #983 in Best Global Universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2022, and #1,001 in THE World University Rankings - Times Higher Education in 2021.[3][1][2]

Anton Chekhov

Sergei Korsakoff

Nikolay Pirogov

Vladimir Serbsky

• Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov — pathologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
• Arkady Arkanov - writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian
• Oleg Atkov — cardiologist and astronaut
• Evgeni Babsky — physiologist and member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• Jonas Basanavičius — Lithuanian physician, activist and proponent of the Lithuanian National Revival
• Leo Bokeria — cardiac surgeon; academician; recipient of Lenin Prize, USSR State Prize and Russian State Prize
• Sergey Botkin[5] — clinician, therapist, activist and one of the founders of modern Russian medical science and education
• Anton Chekhov[5] — physician, playwright, and short-story writer
• Mikhail Chumakov — microbiologist and virologist; helped develop the Polio vaccine and organise its mass production
• Mikhail Davydov — medical scientist, oncologist, surgeon; president of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences; recipient of State Prize in Science and Technology
• Grigori Gorin (Grigori Israilevich Ofshtein) - playwright and writer
• Sergei Korsakoff[5] — neuropsychiatrist; europsychiatrist of the 19th century, known for his studies on the effects of alcoholism on the nervous system (Korsakoff syndrome) and introduction of the concept of paranoia
• Anatoly Kudryavitsky — Russian-Irish novelist and poet
• Shabsay Moshkovsky — physician, infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist
• Alexander Podrabinek - dissident, journalist, and commentator
• Vladimir Serbsky — psychiatrist and one of the founders of forensic psychiatry in Russia; center of forensic psychiatry, Serbsky Center, was named after him
• Pyotr Gannushkin — psychiatrist that developed one of the first theories of psychopathies (today known as personality disorders)
• Nikolay Pirogov[5] — scientist, medical doctor, inventor, pedagogue and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; considered to be the founder of field surgery and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic
• Ivan Sechenov[5] — neurophysiologist; Moscow Medical Academy and Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry were named after him
• Nikolay Sklifosovsky[5] — surgeon, scientist and teacher
• Maxim Konchalovsky — clinician; figure in Russian internal medicine during first half of the 20th century
• Alexander Myasnikov — physician, cardiologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
• Dimitri Venediktov — Deputy Health Minister of the USSR
• Valentin Pokrovsky — epidemiologist; president of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
• Valery Shumakov — surgeon and transplantologist; a pioneer of artificial organ surgery; recipient of Russian state's Order of Saint Andrew
• Renat Akchurin — cardiac surgeon; academician
• Rafiq Tağı — Azerbaijani short-story writer and journalist, graduated in cardiology
• Amiran Revishvili — Georgian cardiac surgeon and electrophysiologist, president of Pan-Russian Scientific Society of Clinical Electrophysiology, Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing
• Boris Yegorov — physician-astronaut who became the first physician to make a space flight

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