MEDICAL INSTITUTE AT VORONEZH

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040555-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 555
• Publication Date: October 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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:!Ihe requirements for admission were quite simple. Prospective students were required
to have completed 10 years of preliminary schooling or alternatively seven years of
preliminary schooling plus night school. Practically all prospective students were
required to take an entrance exam from which specially qualified students were exempt.
:;h'e were approximately five hundred students in the entering class in the fall of 1938.
Four h'mdred of these were females and most of the one hundred men had been rejected from
what were considered the more difficult schools, i.e., science, engineering, industrial
at-.j nili;ary. Students not accepted in the Medical Institute usually went to the Teaching
Institute. The students came from all over the USSR. In 1938-39 all students were
&dni`ted to the school tuition free and received an additional special allowance for
'taking all subjects in the course. Beginning about 1940 the students had to 1) 300
cables tuition for a semester. Many students could not pay and had to resign.
several students who committed they could not raise the money.
There were between five and ten student ter 1940 studying on what were
called "Stalin Stipends". These students had maintained an all "A" record.
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ACQUIRED
The normal course for a degree as an M.D. was of five years duration. All students in
the Medical Institute were required to take the same subjects during the first three
years. The fourth and fifth ve re devoted to specialization. The following are
thr- courses studie
School Year -- 1938-1939
inorganic Chemistry
1.
Physics
Biology
2.
Organic Chemistry
Physics
3.
Anatomy
Anatomy
4.
Histology
Latin
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Analytical Chemistry
Militarism
6.
Foreign Languages
Principles of Lenin and Stalin
Physical education.
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1. Anatomy
2. Histology
3. Physical Chemistry
4. Foreign Languages
5. Parasitology
6. Physical Culture
Physics
Bio-chemistry
Marxism & f.eninism
Foreign Languages
Parasitology
Physical training
1. General Surgery (Theory)
2. Therapeutics
3. Pathological Anatomy
4. Sterilization
5. Pharmacology
6. Parasitology, study of microbes
7. Pathological physiology
8. Infectious diseases
9. Topographical anatomy
10. P aetical surgery, science of operations.
3.
The following are the professors
at the Medical Institute:
Professor Stepan Grigoreff
About 1885 Microbiology
Professor Alekaitei-
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1892 Pathological Ana
tomy
Professor uc vs,-Senior
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1880 Histology
Professor Agat n o
1885 Inorganics Chemi
stry
Professor awe zeva (Lady)
1885 Biochemistry
Professor Merit
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1903 Physics
Professor 631arb~org
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1895 Physiology
Professor ur 3o
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1895 Normal Physiolog
y
Professor Boo k --Junior
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1900 Colloidal Chemis
try
Prof. Volkontey Moved tarkov-1939) '.'
1885 Normal Anatomy
Professor Voront:,ow "
1885 Pharmacology
of the professors were nominally Communists but the students all realised that nova of
them were serious in that belief. The head of the Institute was a Communist
This is common in all schools of higher education.
4. There was a shortage of text books in all classes. Normal procedure vas for five to 10
tud- fr There was little tine
..-0 6.....y y the erase book in turns or in grove sessions.
available for social activities. The students attended school for approximately six hours
per day and spent the rest of their waking hours studying. All students were required to
take courses in the Cossnanist jeology. If any student achieved passing grades in the
study of politics be received pas sing'gesdes in all his other subjects despit' his lack of
proficiency. However, if a student did not obtain passing marks in the political subjects,
his progress was retarded in all subjects until he was able to pass the political subjects.
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Beginning with the third year students were sent to villages to work under village
d.;,ctcrs. This vas called practical training and a
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re - village doctor before the student vas allowed to progress.
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the village doctors were poorly trains stpdents invariably
1new more ebout theoretical medical practice than the village doctors. Few students
received valuable experience in these practical training periods because of the low
level, of the medical practices.
6? There was a State Hospital attached to the Medical Institute with provision for children,
women and p-xsons, with :info etiodr" die es; The Medical Iaos'ttt~4tdsita.M d~otosSai three
three-story buildings, each about 200 yards long and 75 yards wide. The buildings were old
and poorly equipped. In 1941 the Nazi Army apparently made some effort to avoid
destroying the medical buildings but the Red Army deliberately shelled the buildings
as it retreated.
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