Journal of VolgSMU
Quarterly scientific-practical journal

UDK: 378:61(09)

VOLGOGRAD STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: ORIGINS OF TRADITIONS

E. V. Komissarova, I. A. Petrova, G. P. Kibasova

Кафедра истории и культурологии ВолгГМУ

Abstract

The article reviews the history of the foundation of the Stalingrad medical institute as well as the destinies of its academic staff members in the hard postwar years. Special attention is paid to the biography of Akim Kuzmitch Martynov, the first director of the institute. The article uses previously unknown archive records.

Keywords

medical education, Stalingrad medical institute, history of medicine, purges, totalitarianism.

Contacts

Комиссарова Елена Васильевна — к. ист. н., старший преподаватель кафедры истории и культурологии, заведующая музеем Волгоградского государственного медицинского университета, e-mail: museum@volgmed.ru