First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg

The Pavlov Medical University (Russian: Первый Санкт-Петербургский государственный медицинский университет имени академика И. П. Павлова, ПСПбГМУ им.

И. П. Павлова) is a medical school located in Soviet Russia.

Money from the family of Lydia Shanyavskaya, a women's rights activist, provided the financial resources to establish the institute.

Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff, an alumna of the institute and a niece of Alfred Nobel,[1] also made a big donation in the initial years.

[1] Then, Women's Medical Institute, established the second neurology-related department in the country in 1900 under the direction of Vladimir Bekhterev, who headed the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases until 1913.