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\n \n ARMY MEDICAL ACADEMY situated at 6 Akademika Lebedeva Street, an educational institution providing training for army doctors. A unique scientific and medical centre. It was founded in 1798 as the Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy based on a medical and surgical school. Ranked as one of the best educational institutions in the empire, it was known as the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy from 1808. A member of the Medical and Surgical Academy (Army Medical Academy) had the rights, liabilities, and benefits of a member of the Academy of Sciences. The academy received its present-day name in 1881 and was named after S. M. Kirov from 1935 to the start of the 1990s. In 1956, it was united with the Naval Medical Academy established on the basis of Obukhovskaya Hospital and the Third Leningrad Medical Institute in 1940. The academy had six faculties, 61 departments, 30 clinics, 16 research laboratories, and two research centres in 2002. It played a major role in the development of Russian natural science and medicine. Memorial plaques perpetuate the names of N. N. Anichkov, M. I. Arinkin, V. M. Bekhterev, E. I. Bogdanovsky, S. P. Botkin, A. P. Borodin, Z. M. Volynsky, S. S. Girgolav, I. I. Grekov, N. N. Zinin, I. S. Kolesnikov, A. P. Kolesov, N. S. Korotkov, N. P. Kravkov, A. Y. Krassovsky, P. A. Kupriyanov, S. V. Lebedev, M. S. Maslov, A. V. Melnikov, N. S. Molchanov, A. A. Nechaev, V. A. Oppel, L. A. Orbeli, V. P. Osipov, E. N. Pavlovsky, I. P. Pavlov, V. V. Petrov, I. R. Petrov, N. I. Pirogov, I. M. Sechenov, V. N. Tonkov, S. P. Fedorov, K. M. Figurnov, N. Y. Chistovich, V. N. Shamov, and V. N. Shevkunenko. There is a monument to Y. V. Ville installed in the park of the academy, a monument to Botkin in front of the former Mikhailovskaya Hospital, a monument to Pirogov on the territory of the former Obukhovskaya Hospital, a monument to Pirogov and busts of Bogdanovsky and Fedorov in the former Clinical Hospital, a monument to H. I. Turner in the yard of the department of military traumatology and orthopedics, and a monument to all army doctors who fell in action on Voennykh Medikov Square (Square of Army Doctors) by architect Y. K. Mityurev and sculptor B. A. Petrov in 1996. The main building follows the style of Russian classicism, designed by architect A. Porto in 1798. There are picturesque panels based on sketches by artist D. Bernasconi retained in the entrance hall (former conference hall) and a sculpture of the goddess of health Hygeia installed in front of the building.

References: Профессора Военно-медицинской (Медико-хирургической) академии (1798-1998). СПб., 1998; Российская Военно-медицинская академия (1798-1998). СПб., 1998.

T. I. Grekova.\n
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