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The Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology named after K.I.Skryabin

In the year 1919 initiated by prominent scientists and veterinary specialists and in accordance with the Government’s decision two higher schools were set up in Moscow. They were Moscow higher zootechnical institute and Moscow veterinary institute. During the Second World War the Academy was evacuated in the town of Samarqand and continued training high skilled personnel for agriculture.

The main building of the Academy

Afterwards the academy returned to Moscow and since 1955 as a result of abolition of the fur institute the faculties of veterinary and commodity experts were affiliated to it. In 1973 the Academy was named after academician K.I. Skryabin.

The great scientists V.M.Koropov, S.I.Afonsky, V.M.Danilevsky, A.D.Belov, V.P.Shishkov played a large role in the academy formation.

K.I.Skryabin was one of the first deans of the veterinary faculty. He was the very person to make an important contribution in the academy development as well as in the development of the veterinary education as a whole.

Ceremonial graduation

Doctor of biology, professor, academician of the Russian academy of agricultural science, major-general of medical service E.S. Voronin has headed the academy since 1998. Nowadays the academy is under the jurisdiction of the Department for scientific-technological politics and education of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation.

The Academy educates and qualifies highly skilled personnel in the following specialties: “Veterinary”, “Zootechny”, “Veterinary-sanitary inspection”, “Biochemistry”, “Biophysics”, “Bioecology”, “Commodity Expertise, marketing and biotechnology”. Veterinary, biological and agricultural departments qualify post-graduate students and specialists working for doctor’s degree. Fundamental research work in veterinary medicine, zootechnology, biotechnology, immunology and ecology is carried out in the Academy.

Individual scientific work

The highly qualified academic staff and attendant personnel like their work and the Academy; they inventively perfect educational practice and take active part in working out of relevant scientific challenges.

There are 40 departments in the Academy. 17 departments belong to the faculty of veterinary medicine. 258 scientists with Ph.D. degree and 87 scientists with D.Sc. degree work at the departments of the Academy. Four academicians of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Science and four corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Science work at the Academy. The number of the students amounts to 3000. The Academy has the faculty of advance training of the personnel. The faculty gives short term courses to rise up the level of professional skills for personnel of research institutes, diagnostic laboratories, and academic staff of the institutes in Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States, and other foreign countries.

Students are organized in groups of 18-22 people.

Practical classes of cytology

For laboratory classes the group is divided into two sub-groups of 9-11 students. Each group has a monitor who organizes cultural, sports, and social activities.

Students have the following kinds of classes:
-Lectures delivered to present theoretical course.
-Laboratory and practical classes.
-Science and practice conferences.
-Tests.
-Tutorials.
-Self studies including activities under lecturers’ supervision.

Students assist the teacher

During the training period students study general professional subjects as well as humanitarian, social, economical, mathematical, natural science (the Latin language, informatics, foreign language, economics, etc.) allowing students to integrate into international community.

At the faculty of veterinary medicine developing of practical skills is considered of great importance for training highly qualified specialists. Students do practical work at training-and-experimental agricultural enterprises, veterinary clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, veterinary and sanitary inspection laboratories, meat and milk processing plants. The students do practical work under supervision of highly skilled specialists (lecturers, head veterinary doctors, heads of veterinary offices, etc). During the practical course students obtain practical skills nailing down theoretical knowledge.

The Academy has the central training building, anatomical, laboratory, and clinical buildings. In the central training building there are departments of philosophy, social-and-humanitarian science, informatics, mathematics, physics, biophysics, inorganic and analytical chemistry, animals’ feeding, zoohygiene.

Rich academic museum

In the anatomical building there are departments of anatomy and histology of animals, pathological physiology, pathological anatomy.

In the clinical building there are departments of veterinary surgery, internal noninfectious diseases, internal non-contagious diseases, parasitology and invasive diseases in animals, clinical diagnostics and diseases of young animals. In the laboratory building there are departments and laboratories of infectious circle as follows: epizootology, infectious diseases, microbiology, virusology and others. The departments are equipped with modern arrangements; all lecture halls have multimedia equipment.

Here is a sports centre in the Academy where students can play minifootball, table tennis, basketball, billiard, take up karate and weightlifting in the gym.

Martial art is one of the favorite sport direction at the Academy

All nonresident and foreign students and post graduate students are provided with the hostel. There is a canteen in the hostel. Students are accommodated in furnished double rooms with separated lavatory and all the necessary arrangements for living and studies. Internet is available in each room. .

Beauty contest “Miss of the Academy”

The Academy has 12 unique museums as follows: anatomical, pathologoanatomical, zoological, fur animal breeding, the museum of academician K.I.Skryabin, and others.