Novosibirsk TB Research Institute

Novosibirsk Tuberculosis Research Institute (NTRI) (Russian: Новосибирский научно-исследовательский институт туберкулёза (ННИИТ- [nnʲɪˈit])) is a Federal State Budgetary Institution of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and it specializes in the research and treatment of tuberculosis.

NTRI provides the organization of TB care to the population in the regions of the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts of Russia.

By the Order of Soviet of People's Commissars No.19533-r from October 4, 1943 the Novosibirsk Tuberculosis Research Institute was established on the basis of equipment and personnel of the Central TB Research Institute,[1] which was evacuated from Moscow to Novosibirsk during The Great Patriotic War, World War II, in 1941.

[citation needed] The first director of the Novosibirsk Scientific Research Institute of Tuberculosis was Dr Alexandra Apollonovna Letunova.

[citation needed] Clinic: NTRI as a tertiary level health care facility carries out all types of diagnostics and treatment of tuberculosis, including the provision of high-technological and specialized medical care for patients from the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts of the Russian Federation.

Order of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR#19533-r 4 October 1943 (in Russian)