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I.G. Herder History of PSPbGMU im. acad. I.P. Pavlova originates from the opening on September 14 (26), 1897 of the Women's Medical Institute (WMI) - the first educational institution in Russia and Europe, in which women were given the opportunity to receive a higher medical education. From the moment of its formation to the present day, the University has changed several names - the Petrograd Women's Medical Institute (1918), the First Leningrad Medical Institute - 1 LMI, "1st Honey" - the name that went down in the history of medicine of the city and the country (1924). In 1936, we were named after the Nobel Prize winner, Academician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and in 1994 the Institute was transformed into a University and was named the St. Petersburg State Medical University named after Academician I.P. Pavlova. In 2013, such a significant word "First" was returned - this is how the University got its modern name - the First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after Academician I.P. Pavlova. Outstanding female scientists worked at the institute: Anna Akimovna Sakhnovskaya, the first woman in the world - a professor of medicine; Headed the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases. Scientific activity in the field of dermatovenereology was continued by Olga Nikolaevna Podvysotskaya, who later became the first female academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (since 1944) and the first female corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1939). - In 1967, the first in the USSR Research Institute of Pulmonology was organized. - PSPbGMU im. acad. IP Pavlova is the only university in the city that has a polyclinic in its structure: in 2010, 175 years have passed since its foundation.