Military medical аcademy in the period of socio-economic structure change in Russia: historical рarallels

Abstract

The historical Parallels between the events that took place at the Military medical аcademy in the period of change of social system in the country. The role and achievements were at that time leaders in the preservation and development of the institution. Their example clearly shown the role of personality in critical national periods. Despite the difficult political developments in the last century, Military medical аcademy not only retained its vitality, but also rapidly increased the pace of its development in all directions. Historical parallels convincingly showed that in the last century, when the socio-economic formations in our country changed, the Military medical аcademy not only maintained its vitality, but rapidly recovered from the upheavals, increased its development rates in all directions. This was an invaluable merit of those who led it. It was distinguished scholars, theorists, and clinicians, with the highest moral qualities, humanists, has a tremendous organizational skills. V.A. Yurevich, V.A. Oppel, M.D. Il’in, V.N. Tonkov, Yu. L. Shevchenko occupy a particularly important place in the history of the Academy. Their management of аcademy took place at crucial periods of the existence of our country. They managed not only to preserve this unique military medical facility, but to bring it to a new, higher level of development. Pafos, with whom the anniversary of the Academy was celebrated, became a recognition of its unprecedented contribution to the formation and development of medical science and education in our country. On December 17, 1998, the President of the Russian Federation issued a decree «On the Inclusion of the Military Medical Academy in the State Register of Highly Valuable Objects of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation». The Decree was signed by the President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin.