175th anniversary of Kazan Medical Institute

In the acts on founding a university in Kazan - the affirmative charter and statute, signed on November 5, 1804, among its four branches was included the branch of medical or medical sciences, but the opening of the medical faculty took place only on May 14, 1814. The process of forming the faculty, its development, and scientific and pedagogical work initially proceeded under difficult conditions. For a long time the faculty had no base of its own. The funds allocated by the government were quite insignificant. The Faculty had to pass especially hard tests in those years when the university was practically ruled by the reactionary and obscurantist M.L. Magnitsky. The medical faculty was then deprived of almost all of its professors. The few anatomical preparations by order of M. L. Magnitsky were buried in the cemetery. But even in these very unfavorable conditions new progressive forces were maturing in the University. In 1826 the rector of the University became a brilliant scientist and teacher N.I. Lobachevsky. He gathered around himself a nucleus of talented, creative and progressive scholars. Under his direct supervision the main institutions of medical faculty were built: anatomic theater, clinic buildings.