Healthcare in Russia and around the world is undergoing dramatic changes. Innovations in treatment and in organization of health services set forth questions of great complexity with regards to both medical education and research. The concern of the University is to keep abreast of the times, to meet increasing public needs and demands, and to maintain high-quality medical education and research. The present-day medical doctor is to bear responsibility for physical, mental and social well-being of people. He should be competent to solve arising medical problems and to take important medical decisions, with due consideration of ethical aspects. He should possess scientific knowledge, practical and research experience, and independent critical thinking skills. And above all, he must be able to adapt his knowledge, experience, and skills to the changing healthcare system.

Kazan University is engaged in various forms of international cooperation with 245 partners from 58 countries. KFU’s academic profile Over 52,000 students enrolled in all types of programs About 11,500 international students from 101 countries Over 8,000 employees, including over 4,000 teaching and research staff 18 educational units in the central campus, 3 territorial campuses, 3 secondary schools KFU’s research and academic infrastructure Nikolay Lobachevsky Scientific Library with over 5 million storage units, including 150,000 old and rare units University Clinic with 836 beds and over 40,000 serviced district residents 10 Museums Student campus (Universiade Village Dorm Complex) for 13,000 people 11 sports and cultural facilities KFU in World Rankings Round University Ranking 2024 – 404 QS World University Rankings 2025 – 401 Three University Missions – 401-450 U. S. News Best Global Universities 2023 – 860 KFU in Regional Rankings National Aggregate Ranking of Universities – Top 25 (Premier League) RAEX (Russia) National University Rankings 2024 – 20 RAEX (Russia) National Inventiveness Rankings 2023 – 4-5 Interfax (Russia) National University Rankings 2024 – 8

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University is one of the oldest medical higher school in Russia that is well known throughout the world. In 2016, the University celebrated its 110th anniversary. We were the first organization in Russia that provided women with the opportunity to get higher medical education. We were the first in the world to establish a Faculty of Pediatrics that served as a model for creating such departments at other universities around the world. The School of Biomedicine, opened at our University in 1963, was also one of the first in the world. Active participation in medical activities and the development of health care, constant support for scientific research and the introduction of innovations allow us to maintain a leading position in Russian medical education. Today the University is a complex of educational, scientific and medical divisions and centers, offering educational programs of all levels in clinical medicine, biomedicine, psychology, social work and pharmacy.

NSMU was established in 1932 for training medical personnel in the European North of Russia. It currently hosts about 9000 students from 17 countries in 16 faculties and institutes and has a staff of 980, 394 of which are academics – including 80 professors, 250 PhD. University buildings are provided with up-to-date equipment: computers, films, video aids, and other modern appliances. Training at the modern center of pre-clinical center presented by a plenty of state-of-the-art medical mannequins and equipment is a part and partial of educational program. At all there are 55 departments, 27 of them are clinical ones and situated at the best hospitals of the city. Well equipped clinical base allow training highly qualified specialists of different profiles according to modern requirements of the health care systems. Today NSMU is the main medical training center for six regions of Northern Russia. More than 100 graduates of NSMU are working abroad (USA, UK, Canada, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark etc) 22 graduates have the foreign scientific degrees (PhD). About 30 graduates are preparing their PhD now in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Germany. The University offers students practical studies and training in Russia and abroad to become doctors, nurses, psychologists, specialists in social work, etc. The graduates are working more than in 20 countries. Number of international students in the NSMU is continuously growing.

Samara State Medical University (SamSMU) is a modern university with a century-old history. We train personnel for practical healthcare, develop science and develop advanced technologies. Today, SamSMU is one of the largest and most authoritative universities in Russia and one of the best medical universities in our country. SamSMU — we create the future of medicine!

Saratov State Medical University is one of the oldest universities in Russia. It was founded in 1909. At that time Saratov State Medical University was organized as the only faculty of the University which was the 10th in Russia. The founder and the first Rector was Professor Vassily Razumovsky, an outstanding surgeon. He is considered to be the founder of a neurosurgery school in Russia. In 1909, 93 students were admitted to the University. Only men were allowed to study. The education was paid. Several Departments in the basic sciences were opened. They were Physiology, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, General Surgery. Then, in 1911 a new group of Departments started to function — Pathological Anatomy, Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy, Histology, General Hygiene, Forensic Medicine. Many outstanding Russian scientists worked at the Medical Faculty: Prof. A. Bogomolets, prof. S. Spasokukotsky, prof. S. Mirotvortsev. In 1930 reorganization in the field of education in Russia was carried out and many independent Institutes were organized. The Medical Faculty of Saratov University became an independent Medical Institute. Three faculties were organized — Medical, Sanitary-Prophylactic (but it soon stopped its existence) and Care of Mother and Child (which was soon renamed as a Faculty of Pediatrics). By 1935 the Institute had about l600 students. In 1939 one more faculty was founded — the Faculty of Training Military Physicians — specialists for Army service. But during the World War II it stopped functioning and resumed its work only in late fifties. After the World War II many new Departments were opened — mainly for the Faculty of Pediatrics — Propedeutics of Pediatric Diseases, Internal Diseases and Surgery for pediatricians. In 1961 one more faculty started its work. It was the Faculty of Postdipioma continuing education. It was meant for refresher training of specialists, as well as for interns, residents and postgraduates. Once in 3—5 years specialists should take the refresher courses. The population of Saratov is about 1 mln. people, it lacked qualified dental service and in 1988 it was decided to open a Faculty of Dentistry. So in the beginning of 90s Saratov Medical Institute had the following faculties — Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pediatrics, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of postdiploma education and that training military doctors. In 1993 the Institute was again renamed and got the original name of the University. First foreign students appeared in 1991. The first batch consisted only of Indian students. Now 500 students from different foreign countries are studying at the University. Since the year of its foundation the University follows the classic system of training medical students.

Established in 1920 Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Privolzhsky Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (FSBEI HE PRMU MOH Russia) is one of the oldest universities in Russia. It successfully provides scientific researches and educational work in the best world and Russian traditions. The educational process is based on modern principles and new trends of formation and medical development. PRMU consists of eight faculties: faculty of general medicine, faculty of dentistry, faculty of pediatrics, faculty of preventive medicine, faculty of pharmacy, faculty of international medical education, faculty of advanced training of specialists,supplementary professional education.

The Rostov State Medical University is the largest basic training and research center in Southern Russia. Over the 90 years of its existence it has become a diversified complex with 11 faculties, Medical College, Military Training Center and its own Clinic. Leading and advanced doctors of our country have formed on the basis of the Rostov State Medical University their major scientific schools, headed by the Honored Workers of Science, Employees of high school, Honored Doctors, Honored Workers of Health and Culture, as well as world-renown scientists. Today in the Rostov State Medical University operate about 100 departments. More than 840 teachers are constantly working introducing innovations and interactive forms of learning. Among them there are 165 Doctors of Medical Science, 78 professors and 476 Ph.Ds. The academicians and professors who are working at our University now continue to develop the best traditions of their predecessors. The system of Supplementary Education is divided into several categories. At the University there are training programs for doctors and medical organizations from all over the South of Russia. Every year about 8000 doctors are retraining on the Faculty Training, more than 1000 interns and residents — at the Faculty of Professional Retraining. In addition, the University has a Preparatory Faculty on Training Foreign Citizens, because the Rostov State Medical University is an international medical school that trains representatives of more than a hundred nationalities and ethnic groups from all over the world. The scientific work is organized and coordinated by the scientific and research activity and is implemented into the departments and courses. RostSMU has five scientific laboratories, the Vivarium, the Scientific and Research Institute of Immunology. The Central Scientific Research Laboratory (CSRL) functions effectively, where a wide range of biochemical, molecular-genetic, morphological, microbiological studies are carrying out. There are 3 Dissertation Committees for Ph.D. and doctoral dissertations defense. The Rostov State Medical University develops international scientific cooperation with many countries exchanging scientific staff, students, teachers, highly qualified specialists and participating in international scientific conferences and congresses. The Clinic of our University is a multi-field medical institution, which has wide opportunities of modern diagnostic studies and a high level of effective specialized consultative, diagnostic and medical care to the population of the Rostov Region and other territories of the Southern Federal District and the Russian Federation. It is also the largest training base, which has all conditions for educational process using the advanced forms and methods of training and modern achievements in medical science. In the Clinic the students acquire the necessary skills and get acquainted with the most modern medical equipment. The Clinic of RostSMU includes 20 inpatient units with 675 beds (including 125 day care beds), 2 Departments of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Consultative Outpatient Department, a Dental Department, Medical Center, Сenter of Medical Ophthalmology, 13 medical-diagnostic subdivisions, Blood Technology Center. Today the clinic staff consists of 353 physicians, including 11 professors, 28 Doctors of Medical Science and 52 PhDs; more than 30 employees of the university are the main external specialists and experts of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District, the Ministry of Health of the Rostov region and the Municipal Council «Health Management in Rostov-on-Don». In recent years the centralization and automation of many diagnostic and medical departments of our University allowed to concentrate and rationally use the staff, medical equipment, improve the quality of work of each structural unit and create a technology of continuous medical-diagnostic process. The Rectorship puts particular emphasis on the organization of the educational process at the University. Nowadays we implement interactive forms of training and computerize of educational process. The best professors and doctors of the University have the opportunity to undergo course of internship in medical clinics and universities of Europe. Under the realization of the priority national project «Health» the Administration of the University is actively developing and effectively implementing modern programs of medical-social rehabilitation of children and adolescents in practical healthcare. Under the realization of the educational task of the priority national project in the sphere of health care physicians for the Rostov Region and the whole Caucasian region are successfully trained at our University.

The Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University was founded in September 14 (26) 1897 as the Medical Institute for Women. It was the first institution both in Russia and Europe that provided an opportunity for women to acquire higher medical education. Soon after its foundation, the Women’s Medical Institute (WMI) became a reputable institution and represented a recognized model for higher medical education and medical science. Clinics and departments of the WMI developed and implemented the most advanced methods of diagnostics and treatment. Our University has changed a few names since the time of its foundation: the Women’s Medical Institute of St. Petersburg (1918), The First Medical Institute of Leningrad, also known as ‘the 1st Med’ (1924). This name went down in history of St. Petersburg and Russian medicine. In 1936 the First Medical Institute was named in honor of the Nobel Prize winner Academician I. P. Pavlov. In 1994 the First Medical Institute was reorganized into a medical university and got the name Pavlov Saint Petersburg State Medical University. In 2013, the word ‘first’ was returned to official name of University. In the 1930s the Institute of Chemistry and Pharmacy as well as the Institute of Pediatrics were detached from the First Medical Institute and established as independent units. In the meantime construction of new units and laboratory buildings were already in the design phase but the Second World War bothered to fulfill that plan. During heroic wartime defense of Leningrad the Institute did not stop providing patient care, education and research; many of its graduates went to war. We revere the memory of our graduates killed in battle. In 1987 a monument in honor of the fallen doctors was erected in the Institute Park, in the very same place where an unexploded bomb had been found. The 1960–1980’s were marked by a large-scale construction of new academic buildings, dormitories, research laboratories, thus, ‘the 1st Med’ gained its present day appearance. In the 1990s, a number of departments evolved into Research Institutes. Today the University continues improving patient care, medical education and science.

The medical university in Yaroslavl was established during the years of the Great Patriotic War. At that time, many doctors and faculty members from medical institutes evacuated from the western regions of the USSR — primarily from Belarus — were located in Yaroslavl. To train medical personnel who were in high demand both at the front and in the rear, the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR issued a decree on May 22, 1943, establishing the Belarusian Medical Institute in Yaroslavl. The institute was formed on the basis of the Minsk and Vitebsk medical institutes. Professor Z.K. Mogilevchik from the Minsk Medical Institute was appointed as the director. In the summer of 1944, the government decided to re-evacuate the Belarusian Medical Institute. At the same time, the Council of People’s Commissars issued directive No. 16 725-r on August 15, 1944, establishing a new institution in Yaroslavl — the Yaroslavl Medical Institute (YMI). Many faculty members who had worked at the Belarusian Medical Institute remained at YMI — including I.M. Perelman, I.M. Vertkin, A.A. Lipmanova, S.A. Botvinnik, I.M. Turetsky, and others. Many students who had begun their studies in 1943 at the Belarusian Medical Institute also continued their education in Yaroslavl. On October 2, 1944, the first classes at YMI officially began. The first rector of the Yaroslavl Medical Institute was Doctor of Medical Sciences Vladimir Georgievich Ermolaev (1899–1972), author of dozens of scientific works. He had to lead the institute through extremely difficult times. Under his leadership, the academic and scientific foundations of the institute were built virtually from scratch, a teaching staff was assembled, and numerous everyday challenges were addressed. Despite the hardships of its early days, scientific research work began at the university from the very start. In 1946, the first academic conference of YMI faculty was held, and in 1947, the first student research conference took place. V.G. Ermolaev headed the institute until 1949. In 1963, the university established a Dissertation Council for awarding the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences. Since 1994, the institution has borne the name Yaroslavl State Medical Academy. In November 2014, it was granted university status.