Tashkent Medical Academy

The People’s Commissariat of Health was established as a part of the Council of People’s Commissars on July 11, 1918.The foundation of the Medicine of Turkestan was based on during that period. The People’s Commissariat of Health made several important decisions in the field of healthcare in the first years of its activity. One of them is the approval on March 13, 1919 of the Regulations on the management of medical institutions in the Republic of Turkestan. On April 13, 1919, a decision was made to organize a medical faculty as the part of the Turkestan State University. On September 17, 1919, at the first academic council of Turkestan State University, Professor P.P. Sitkovsky was appointed as a dean of the new medical faculty and K.G. Khrushyev as a deputy. 1919-1921 was the organizational period of the faculty, when its material and technical base were being created. During that period I.V. Davidovsky, A.N. Kryukov, P.P. Sitkovsky, V.F. Voyno-Yasenetskiy, K.G. Khrushyev, G.B. Berlatskiy had worked as the heads. S.N. Naumov, M.I. Prozin, G.G. Shcheglov, A.V. Miller, V.K. Arkadyev, I.P. Rojdestvensky, S.E. Zimmerman, A.A. Yudin, E.M. Shlyahtin, O.B. Lepeshinskaya, I.A. Smorodintsev, M.A. Zaharchenko, V.V. Vasilyevsky, M.S. Astrov, M.M. Nevyadomsky, G.S. Bom, G.A. Ilyin, N.I. Ragoza, A.N. Murzin, I.S. Milman, N.I. Osinovsky, F.I. Walker, S.A. Molchanov, G.N. Terehov and others were invited as teachers. On May 5, 1920 the Faculty of Medicine was provided with a cadet corps for accommodation and a hospital with 500 beds.