34 Notable alumni of
Moscow Medical Academy
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Moscow Medical Academy is 687th in the world, 245th in Europe, and 17th in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from Moscow Medical Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Anton Chekhov
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- writerprose writerplaywrightsatiristjournalist
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and physician who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
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Mehriban Aliyeva
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- ophthalmologistpoliticianphysician
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Mehriban Arif gizi Aliyeva is an Azerbaijani politician and physician who is the vice president and First Lady of Azerbaijan.
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Nikolai Pirogov
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- physiciansurgeonanatomistscientist
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Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the most widely recognized Russian physicians. Considered to be the founder of field surgery, he was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847) and one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He is credited with the invention of various kinds of surgical operations and developing his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.
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Valeri Polyakov
- Enrolled in Moscow Medical Academy
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- physicianastronaut
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Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut. He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip. His combined space experience was more than 22 months.
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Alexander Luria
- Enrolled in Moscow Medical Academy
- Studied in 1937
- Occupations
- anthropologistphysicianspecial education teacherpsychologist
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Alexander Romanovich Luria was a Soviet neuropsychologist, often credited as a father of modern neuropsychology. He developed an extensive and original battery of neuropsychological tests during his clinical work with brain-injured victims of World War II, which are still used in various forms. He made an in-depth analysis of the functioning of various brain regions and integrative processes of the brain in general. Luria's magnum opus, Higher Cortical Functions in Man (1962), is a much-used psychological textbook which has been translated into many languages and which he supplemented with The Working Brain in 1973.
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Ivan Sechenov
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- philosopherphysiologistengineermathematicianpsychologist
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Doctor Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov, was a Russian psychologist, physiologist, and medical scientist.
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Nikolay Sklifosovsky
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- university teachersurgeonphysiologist
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky was a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Moldavian origin. He was born near the town of Dubasari, which is now in Transnistria. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg, Kiev, and Moscow. He was a founder of the «Clinical Town» at Devichye Pole.
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Sergey Petrovich Botkin
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- physician
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Sergey Petrovich Botkin was a famous Russian clinician, therapist, and activist, one of the founders of modern Russian medical science and education. He introduced triage, pathological anatomy, and post mortem diagnostics into Russian medical practice.
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Boris Borisovich Yegorov
- Enrolled in Moscow Medical Academy
- Studied in 1961
- Occupations
- science astronautphysicianastronaut
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Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician and cosmonaut who became the first medical doctor to travel to space. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) and received his medical degree from the Moscow Medical Institute in 1961.
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Arkady Arkanov
- Enrolled in Moscow Medical Academy
- Studied in 1957
- Occupations
- television presenterplaywrighthumoristphysicianpresenter
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Arkady Mikhailovich Arkanov was a Russian writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian.
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Jonas Basanavičius
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- historianwriterlinguistjournalistphysician
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Jonas Basanavičius was an activist and proponent of the Lithuanian National Revival. He participated in every major event leading to the independent Lithuanian state and is often given the informal honorific title of the "Patriarch of the Nation" (Lithuanian: tautos patriarchas) for his contributions.
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Leyla Adamyan
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- physiciangynaecologistobstetrician
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Leyla Vladimirovna Adamyan is a Soviet and Russia an obstetrician-gynecologist, the doctor of medical sciences, teacher, professor.
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Sergei Korsakoff
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- psychologistpsychiatrist
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Sergei Sergeyevich Korsakov was a neuropsychiatrist from the Russian Empire, known for his studies on alcoholic psychosis. His name is lent to the eponymous Korsakov's syndrome and Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome.
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Mikhail Davydov
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- surgeononcologistscientist
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Mikhail Ivanovich Davydov is a Russian doctor and medical scientist. He has received the Russian State Prize Laureate, is an Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation, Director of the Russian Cancer Research Center, member of the Presidium and Academician of RAS, member and President of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Alexandr Podrabinek
- Enrolled in Moscow Medical Academy
- Studied in 1974
- Occupations
- writerdissidentediting staffhuman rights activistjournalist
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Alexander Pinkhosovich Podrabinek is a Soviet dissident, journalist and commentator. During the Soviet period he was a human rights activist, being exiled, then imprisoned in a corrective-labour colony, for publication of his book Punitive Medicine in Russian and in English.
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Pyotr Gannushkin
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- 1875-1933 (aged 58)
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- psychiatrist
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Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin was a Russian psychiatrist who developed one of the first theories of psychopathies known today as personality disorders. He was a student of Sergei Korsakoff and Vladimir Serbsky. Not only did he manage to delineate certain organizational tasks of social psychiatry, but he also clearly formulated the main methodological aim of social psychiatrists, to combine methods of individual clinical analysis with sociological research and generalization.
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Valery Shumakov
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- physiciansurgeonuniversity teachertransplant surgeon
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Valery Ivanovich Shumakov was a Russian surgeon and transplantologist, famous for being the founding father of organ transplants in Russia and was a pioneer of artificial organ surgery.
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Nadezhda Troyan
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- surgeon
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Nadezhda Viktorovna Troyan was a Soviet Belarusian intelligence officer who also served as a nurse in a partisan unit. She is most known for her role in the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, for which she and her fellow co-conspirators were honored with the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943.
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Alla Danko
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- television presenterjournalist
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Alla Georgievna Danko is a Russian TV presenter, journalist, and former announcer of Soviet Central Television.
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Džamila Stehlíková
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- physicianpoliticianuniversity teacherpedagogue
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Džamila Stehlíková, née Ordabayeva (born 6 February 1962, in Almaty) is a Kazakh-born Czech politician and a doctor. She is a member of the Czech Green Party (Czech Green Party), and was the Minister for Human Rights and Minorities from 2007 to 2009.
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Alexei Abrikosov
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- pathologistauthor
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Aleksey Ivanovich Abrikosov was a Soviet pathologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1939) and the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences (since 1944).
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Oleg Atkov
- Enrolled in Moscow Medical Academy
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- physicianastronaut
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Oleg Yur'yevich At'kov is a Russian cardiologist and former Soviet cosmonaut. With a doctorate from the Russian Academy of Medical Science, Atkov was chosen to be the health specialist on board Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-11. After Atkov's rather long time in space, he returned to work at the Myasnikov Institute of Clinical Cardiology to continue his research on the adaptation of weightlessness and cardiology. With his published research and time in space, Atkov holds two of the USSR's highest honors; the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Atkov is a professor of medicine at the Russian National Research Medical University and currently serves as the vice president of Russian Railways.
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Vladimir Serbsky
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- forensic psychiatrist
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Vladimir Petrovich Serbsky was a Russian psychiatrist and one of the founders of forensic psychiatry in Russia. The author of The Forensic Psychopathology, Serbsky thought delinquency to have no congenital basis, considering it to be caused by social reasons.
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Sergey Gauthier
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- scientistsurgeon
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Sergey Vladimirovich Gauthier is a Russian surgeon and transplantologist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2013), Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (since 2011), Chief Transplantologist of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences (Dsc).
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Maxim Konchalovsky
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- physician
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Maxim Petrovich Konchalovsky was a Russian and Soviet doctor, close clinician, founder of the school of internal medicine clinic.
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Igor Smirnov
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- psychologist
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Igor Viktorovich Smirnov was a controversial Russian scientist best known for his role in Soviet-era mind control research as well as an obscure field of human behavior study he called "psychoecology". He was a son of Soviet Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov, who was executed for his role in Joseph Stalin's political repressions.
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Aleksandr Prokopyev
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- politicianmember of the State Duma
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Alexander Prokopyev is a Russian politician and a deputy of the 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.
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Amiran Revishvili
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- cardiologist
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Amiran Shota Revishvili, born February 11, 1956, is a cardiac electrophysiologist, and Director, A.V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery in Moscow. He is president of the Russian Scientific Society of Clinical Electrophysiology, Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing, which is the Russian organizational member of the European Heart Rhythm Society network.
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Badma Bashankayev
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- surgeonmember of the State Duma
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Badma Nikolayevich Bashankayev is a Russian surgeon and politician.
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Anatoly Kudryavitsky
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- poettranslatorwriterlinguist
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Anatoly Kudryavitsky is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet, editor and literary translator.
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Zoya Mironova
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- physician
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Zoya Sergeyevna Mironova was a Russian speed skater and sports surgeon, one of the founders of the sports traumatology in the Soviet Union. She was the head surgeon of the Soviet Olympic team between 1952 and 1976, and personally operated Olympic champions including Valentin Muratov, Sofia Muratova, Yury Vlasov, Alexander Yakushev and Aleksandr Karshakevich.
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Alexey Severtsev
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- surgeon
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Alexey Nikolaevich Severtsev – a Russian doctor of medicine sciences, professor in the hospital surgery department of the medical faculty in Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University and the chief surgeon of a chain of clinics “MEDSI”.
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Leonid Lazebnik
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- gastroenterologist
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Leonid Borisovich Lazebnik is a Russian physician, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor at the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, President of the Gastroenterology Scientific Society of Russia. Laureate of the 1999 Moscow Government Prize and 2000 Myasnikov Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Prize.
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Ursov Igor
- Enrolled in Moscow Medical Academy
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- physician
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Igor Grigorievich Ursov was a Soviet Russian tuberculosis specialist and organizer of public health who achieved tuberculosis control breakthroughs in Russia.
