The founding date of the university is May 14, 1814. On May 14, 2019, the oldest medical university in Russia, Kazan State Medical University, celebrated its 205th anniversary.
The founding date of the university is May 14, 1814. On May 14, 2019, the oldest medical university in Russia, Kazan State Medical University, celebrated its 205th anniversary.
Kazan Medical University is a multifunctional multilevel state higher medical educational institution that meets the needs of society and the individual in higher medical education, the development of life sciences, scientific medical knowledge. The date of creation of the Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) is considered to be May 14, 1814, when the first meeting of the council of the medical department of the Imperial Kazan University took place.
By the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR dated 05.11.1930 No. 132, the educational institution receives the status of an independent institute with medical and sanitary-hygienic faculties. Later, the faculties were opened: pediatric (1932),dental (1956),pharmaceutical (1975),postgraduate education (1993),social work (1991) and management and higher nursing education (1994),for work with foreign students (2014) and biomedical (2014). Among the graduates of the Kazan Medical School are more than 30 academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences of Russia. April 24, 1994, Kazan State Medical Institute received university status.
