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**North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov**
Северо-Западный государственный медицинский университет им. И.И. Мечникова
	Logo of the North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov
Former name	Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy
Type	Public
Established	2011
Affiliation	non-denominational
Rector	Lila Aleksandr Mikhailovich (Лила Александр Михайлович)
Administrative staff	750 (112 DSc, 433 PhD, 82 Prof, and 167 AProf)
Students	5000
Address	191015, Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg, Kirochnaya street, 41 195067, Russia, St. Petersburg, Piskarevskij prospect, 47, Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russian Federation
Campus	Urban (40 000 м²)
Website	www.mechnik.spb.ru

The North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (NWSMU), until 2011 St. Petersburg I. I. Mechnikov State Medical Academy (SPSMA), is a public university located in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The NWSMU is one of the oldest and largest Russian Higher Medical Schools. It is often called the Second Medical College in St. Petersburg because of its renaming in 1920, relative to Saint Petersburg State Medical University, which is called the First Medical College.

More than 35,000 physicians graduated from the university. Since beginning the international program in 1947 there have been more than 3500 international graduates from more than 50 countries. Currently there is a total student population of over 5,000. The university was established in 2011 following a merger of SPSMA with the St. Petersburg Medical Academy for Postgraduate Studies.

History

The NWSMU was established in 1907 under the direction of academician Vladimir Bekhterev and developed by the Russian Government through the Ministry of Health on the basis of the laws of Russian Federation.

Name changes

1907–1920 - Medical Faculty of Psycho Neurological Institute
1920–1936 - Second Leningrad Medical Institute
1936–1946 - The Institute united with a city hospital and named after Nobel Laureate Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
1946–1994 - Leningrad Medical Institute of Sanitary and Hygiene by the order of the Board of Ministers of the USSR (N 14077 from 22.12.1946)
1994–1995 - St. Petersburg State Medical Academy (WHO Directory, 7 ed., page 329)
1995–2011 - The SPSMA was named after the great Russian scientist I. I. Mechnikov (order N 1307-p, dated 22.12.1995)
2011–Present - The St. Petersburg I. I. Mechnikov State Medical Academy was renamed to North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, specializing in the provision of health care to the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation^[1]