Pirogov Museum

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PIROGOV MUSEUM, Memorial Pirogov Museum founded in 1890 on the basis of the Medical Assembly of the Pirogov Russian Surgical Society. Named after N. I. Pirogov, it was opened in 1898 in the building erected by subscription. Sampsonievskaya Embankment where the museum was situated and the embankment was renamed Pirogovskaya at the same time. The museum was closed in 1927, some of its collections were handed over to the museum of the Army Medical Academy and then to the Army Medical Museum. The building was demolished in 1927 with St. Petersburg Hotel erected in its place.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Pirogov Nikolay Ivanovich
Army Medical Academy
Army Medical Museum
1897