S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy

The S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (Russian: Военно-медицинская академия имени С. М. Кирова, romanized: Voyenno-meditsinskaya akademiya imeni S. M. Kirova) is a higher education institution of military medicine in Saint Petersburg and the Russian Federation.

In 1715, by the Tsar's order the Admiralty Hospital in the Vyborg Side of Saint Petersburg was founded.

His contributions have been commemorated with a monument which stood in front of the academy until the October Revolution.

In 1904–1924, Nikolai Kravkov, the founder of Russian national school of pharmacologists, headed the academy's Department of Pharmacology.

[4] Nadezhda Suslova, the first female physician in Russia, attended Sechenov's classes at the academy.

Late in 2011, minister of defense Anatoliy Serdyukov declared his intention to move the academy from the centre of Saint Petersburg to one of its suburbs.

There are three support units In 2016, 11 territorial retraining and advanced training courses for paramedical personnel were opened in Vladivostok, Chita, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Sevastopol, Kaliningrad, Severomorsk, Podolsk and Moscow.

The Imperial Military Medical Academy in 1914 (as photographed by Karl Bulla )
The campus on the bank of the Neva River
The shoulder patch of the academy.