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Veterinary medicine

Training program on “Veterinary” specialty with awarded qualification Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) takes 5 years. The academic year consists of two terms 18 weeks each. The first term starts on 1st September and finishes on 31st December; the second term starts at the beginning of February and finishes at the end of June. Students have winter vacation (2 weeks approximately from 22nd January to 4th February) and summer vacation lasting 4-5 weeks (July-August).

The curriculum of the faculty of veterinary medicine provides more then 7500 hours with included 3200 hours for obtaining a practical skills.

During the training period students master more than 50 subjects, have 50 tests and 40 exams. For final attestation students have State examinations on basic subjects and practical skills.

Practice work is considered to be an important component of highly qualified specialists training program. Students do practical work at agricultural enterprises, veterinary clinics, veterinary laboratories, veterinary and sanitary inspection laboratories at markets, factories processing cattle-breeding products.

At the faculty of veterinary medicine developing of practical skills is considered of great importance for training highly qualified specialists. Students have 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.

Degree offered after graduation is Doctor of Veterinary medicine. A graduate awarded “Veterinary Medicine (DVM)” diploma is ready to work at cattle breading enterprises of different forms of ownership, industrial complexes processing milk and meat, growing pedigree animals, treatment-and-prophylaxis and diagnostics centers (animals treatment stations, district veterinary clinics, laboratories, frontier veterinary offices) at veterinary authorities of constituent entity, district, city, etc.

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Curriculum
(English Medium)


Discipline Total hours
Russian Language 554
Advanced mathematics 130
Informatics 180
Course of general life safety 60
Philosophy 148
Political science and sociology 72
Law fundamentals 76
History of World Culture 72
History of Veterinary medicine 70
Physical training 444
Inorganic chemistry 90
Analytical chemistry 64
Physical and colloid chemistry 54
Physics and Biophysics 137
Botany fundamentals 100
Biology 200
Medicinal and noxious plants 78
Mechanization of agriculture 100
Organic chemistry 110
Biological chemistry 110
Latin Language 150
Ecology fundamentals 82
Automatic control systems in agricultural production 156
Agricultural economics 148
Animal Feeding 198
Veterinary Genetics 110
Veterinary Anatomy 332
Veterinary Histology, cytology and embryology 161
Veterinary Microbiology 181
Veterinary Virology 112
Animals breeding with fundamentals of zootechny 138
Veterinary Hygiene 60
Veterinary Radiology 50
Veterinary Physiology and Ethology 222
Pathological Physiology 112
Veterinary Immunology 130
Veterinary Pharmacology 82
Veterinary Toxicology 60
Veterinary Radiobiology 60
Anatomical Pathology 70
General Veterinary Surgery 134
Operative Veterinary Surgery 70
Veterinary Obstetrics and reproduction 240
Veterinary sanitary inspection 210
Veterinary Parasitology 220
Internal noninfectious diseases of animal 270
Epizootology 280
Economics and management of veterinary business 130
Diseases of Poultry 60
Biotechnology (elective) 108
Economics and management of agriculture production 120
Dissectional course with forensic veterinary expertise 80
Particular Veterinary Surgery 104
Veterinary and sanitary inspection of milk and dairy produce 42
Biology and pathology of the small animals 110
Veterinary business 24
Diseases of young animals 70
Veterinary clinical pharmacology 36
TOTAL 7771