Paediatric Medical Academy

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PEDIATRIC MEDICAL ACADEMY, St. Petersburg State Paediatric Medical Academy situated at 2 Litovskaya Street, the first and only Russian higher education institution specialised in paediatricians' training. It was founded in 1925 as the Zetkin Practice Institute for Maternity and Infancy Care on the basis of the city children's hospital established in 1905 and named In The Memory Of The Holy Coronation Of Their Imperial Majesties. It was transformed into a research institute in 1928 and a medical and educational institution in 1932. It was then renamed the Leningrad Paediatric Medical Institute in 1935 and Paediatric Medical Academy in 1994. The institute carried out its work during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, its dairy kitchen catered for up to eight thousand children daily. The academy includes the faculties of paediatrics, therapy, clinical psychology, and doctors' advanced training and professional retraining. It had a multifield clinical hospital accommodating 815 beds. The academy's scientific schools are associated with M. S. Maslov, A. F. Tur, a monument to him sculpted by E. F. Yashin and installed in the academy's park in 1994, as well as M. G. Danilevich, A. B. Volovik, P. S. Medovikov, and G. A. Bairov.

References: К 75-летию Санкт-Петербургской государственной педиатрической медицинской академии, 1925-2000: Биографии. СПб., 2000.

T. I. Grekova. Bairov G.A.
Danilevich M.G.
Maslov Mikhail Stepanovich
Medovikov P.S.
Tur Alexander Fedorovich
Volovik A.B.
Yashin E.F.
Zetkin Klara
Litovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
К 75-летию Санкт-Петербургской государственной педиатрической медицинской академии, 1925-2000: Биографии. СПб., 2000