Ural State Medical University (Russian: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Уральский государственный медицинский университет» Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации (ФГБОУ ВО УГМУ Минздрава России, УГМУ)) is a public medical university in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast in the Ural region of Russia.

The Sverdlovsk Medical Institute was founded on March 1, 1931, on the basis of a special resolution of July 10, 1930, issued by the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

[3] During the Great Patriotic War, at the SSMI, by order of the NKZ, an urgent restructuring of the educational process was carried out (Director of the Institute, Professor Vladimir Ivanovich Velichkin (Владимир Иванович Величкин)) and a single faculty was created that trained military doctors.

Thus, the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR rejected the dissertation of the assistant to Laryngology department of the Sverdlovsk Medical Institute, RB Pinus, on the topic “Maxillary sinus cysts,” indicating in her conclusion: “There is no cancer under socialism”.

During 1946-1983 the university was headed by personalities, scientists who made a contribution to the development of domestic science, strengthening the material and technical base of the institute.

These include professor-directors of the institute: 1946-1952 – Serebrennikov Valentin Sergeevich (Серебренников Валентин Сергеевич), 1952-1962 – Zverev Alexey Fedorovich (Зверев Алексей Федорович), 1962-1983 – Klimov Vasily Nikolaevich (Климов Василий Николаевич).

From 1984 to 2005 the Institute was headed by the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor Anatoly Petrovich Yastrebov (Ястребов Анатолий Петрович).

[5] In 1979 the university was rewarded by the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (USSR) for medical science development and specialist training.