Krasnoyarsk State Medical University

Krasnoyarsk State Medical University is a leading higher medical University in Siberia and the Far East region. Krasnoyarsk State Medical University holds 17th place in Medical Universities of Russian Federation and 3rd place in Siberia and the Far East region. Krasnoyarsk State Medical University is a fusion of Leningrad Medical Institute and Leningrad Pediatric dental institute Krasnoyarsk State Medical University was formed in 1942 as Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute by the Order of the All-Union Committee for Higher Education. Till 1958 Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute had only medical faculty, but in 1958 the pediatric faculty was inaugurated. In 1978, faculty of dentistry, in 1992, faculty for Higher Nursing Education and in 2006, the Faculty of Pharmacy was opened. In its history, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University has trained more than 30 thousand doctors, pediatricians, dentists, managers and organizers of practical public health. In the last five years, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University has trained about 2,500 doctors.