As a state-managed university of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, it offers varied medical education across its 7 faculties and 66 departments.

Over 6,000 students enroll in this esteemed institution, who are both natives and international scholars.

[2] On 4 July 1920 the Kuban-Black Sea Revolutionary Committee issued a decree opening in Kuban a state university with three faculties: Medical, Natural Science and Socio-historic.

It was opened in place of the prior Diecesan Women's School of Yekaterinodar (currently Krasnodar).

In 1921 “Kubanski nauchni meditsinski vestnik” a regular press scientific organ of South Russia was created by the first rector of Kuban Medical Institute N.F.