Russian Museum of Military Medicine

The Museum was founded in Moscow, RSFSR, in 1942, before being moved to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) three years later.

Today, the museum holds about 210,000 exhibits relating to the history of Russian and world military medicine.

Responding to inquiries from foreign governments, the museum located the documents of more than 100,000 people who were listed in their respective countries as missing in action.

The Russian military doctor, Christophor Oppel, was awarded for his service on the battlefield by both the Emperors Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France at the same time!

Now, 200 years later, at the beginning of the 21st century, military doctors participate in interrogation of the enemy with the intention of securing critical information with the aid of medicines.

The main building of the Military Medicine Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A sketch by the Ilya Efimovich Repin of The arrival of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov to Moscow celebrating the 50th anniversary of the scientific activities of the great Russian surgeon in 1881