Samara State Medical University

Samara State Medical University

Самарский государственный медицинский университет
Motto	Arte et humanitate, labore et scientia
Type	Public
Established	12 July 1930
President	Gennady Kotelnikov [ru]
Rector	Aleksandr Kolsanov [ru]
Students	~ 7,000
Location	Chapayevskaya 89 , Samara , Russia 53°11′13″N 50°05′39″E / 53.18694°N 50.09417°E / 53.18694; 50.09417
Campus	Urban
Nickname	SamGMU (Russian: СамГМУ)
Website	www.samsmu.ru

Samara State Medical University (Russian: Самарский государственный медицинский университет) is a public higher medical educational institution in Samara, Russia. It trains civilian specialists with higher education in medicine, pharmacy, economics, and the humanities, from general education institutions to doctoral programs. The opening of this university was preceded by the existence of the Faculty of Medicine of Samara State University (1919–1927) at the Provincial Zemstvo Hospital, which was closed due to lack of funding. It is the parent university of the Samara Military Medical Institute (1999–2006) and Reaviz University (since 1993).

History

The university was founded in 1930 as the Middle Volga Regional Medical Institute (1930-1934), later renamed the Samara Medical Institute (1934-1935), Kuibyshev Medical Institute (1935-1939). It underwent significant reorganization in 1939, when the 2nd Kuibyshev Military Medical Academy (1939-1942) was created on its basis. After relocating to Samarkand, it was reorganized for the second time into the Kuibyshev Medical Institute named after D. I. Ulyanov (1942-1990), then - Samara Medical Institute (1990-1992). From 1943 to 1965 it was a single-faculty institute, from 1965 to 1990 - a multi-faculty one. Renowned Russian scientists—surgeon and clinical anatomist V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky and microbiologist N. F. Gamaleya—were selected to join the faculty of KMI-SamSMU through a competition, but they were not hired. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at KVMA was headed by I. F. Zhordania, the founder of Russian gynecology.

Since 2019, the university's rector has been Alexander Kolsanov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2023), and Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Structure

The university's structure includes educational institutes, research institutes, its own clinics, scientific and educational centers, innovative infrastructure, research laboratories, as well as the Samara State Medical University Scientific Library (with a collection of over 600,000 volumes), three internet centers with 120 seats, and over 20 multimedia and computer labs.

The university successfully operates six dissertation councils in 15 specialties. Postgraduate and doctoral research training is conducted in 38 specialties.

Over 7,000 students study at the university annually, including approximately 350 international students. The university has a faculty of over 1,500, including two academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, eight Honored Scientists of Russia, three Honored Workers of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and 19 Honored Doctors of Russia. Five of its own buildings and over 35 clinical institutions in the city and region serve as teaching facilities.

References

External links

• Media related to Samara State Medical University at Wikimedia Commons