The institution started in 1900 as the medical faculty of the Novorossiyskiy State University in Odessa. The medical faculty soon became one of the most prestigious medical faculties in the Russian Empire. Many famous medical scientists, including Nobel laureate and professor I. I. Mechnikov, worked here. The medical faculty managed to survive the difficult and turbulent period of the early years of the Russian revolution and in 1922 it was transformed into the independent and autonomous Odessa State Medical Institute. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became Odessa State Medical University in an independent Ukrainian Republic. Autumn 2018: Odessa National Medical University was seized by ousted former rector, Valeriy Zaporozhan. Valeriy Zaporozhan, who was an aide to disgraced former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was fired from his post by Health Ministry of Ukraine in July. In January 2019 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to merge the University with the Medical Academy named after S.I. Georgievsky of Vernadsky CFU to create a new Odessa National Medical University.
Ranking and reputation
The Odessa National Medical University consists of 58 faculties and has a student population of over six thousand, including foreign students from very diverse countries. Tuition is given in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English languages. There are 100 clinical departments in the university, located at 63 medical and prophylactic institutions in Odessa and Odessa region. All the departments of the university have their own Internet site. The site contains all essential methodological materials on all the disciplines in the Ukrainian, Russian and English. An electronic catalog of the whole fund of books and journals as well as an electronic fund of the course books have been created at the university library. An on-line access to electronic resources has been provided. A Center of Distance Education has been created for effective and uninterrupted professional development of doctors and pharmaceutics. The university has created all the conditions necessary for active students’ leisure. There are six sports halls at the university sport complex: for sports games, table tennis, aerobics and rhythmic gymnastics, shaping-up, gym and track-and-field hall. There are several sport groups: athletics, basketball, handball, tennis, power-lifting, weight sports, swimming, fencing, indoor soccer, judo, sambo, chess. Hostels provide students with sports grounds and gyms. The students’ sports and fitness complex is situated on the territory of Lustdorf at the Black Sea coast. There also exists the center of students’ creative work which is called “VITA” at the university. Thirty creative groups of different genres function actively in this center and unite about 250 students. 2500 students live in 5 hostels.
Dubovy Ephim Davudovich, - Professor, one of the founders of Ukrainian and Russian radiology, created a generation of radiologists with more than 56 PhD students and more 200 articles and 8 books.
Selina Hayat Ivy - Dr. Salina Hayat Ivy the first City Mayor of Narayanganj and first woman Mayor of Bangladesh. Ivy has been given the status of Deputy Minister on 7 November 2017.
Zaporozhan Valery Mycolayovych - Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, winner of State prize of Ukraine in the sphere of science and technology, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Inventor of Ukraine. In 1971 graduated from Odessa Pirogov Medical Institute.
Kresyun Valentin Iosyfovich – Ukrainian scientist in the sphere of pharmacology, corresponding member of National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Honored scientist in the sphere of science and technology of Ukraine. In 1970 graduated from Odessa Pirogov medical institute.
Serdyuk Valentyn - Ukrainian scientist in the sphere of Orthopedic Surgery, Physiotherapy and scoliosis, member of International Academy of Original Ideas of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Inventor of Ukraine.
Stefanov Alexandr Victorovich - Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, a director of Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology. In 1973 graduated from Odessa Pirogov Medical Institute.
Reznik Boris Yakovlevich - Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, corresponding member of National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. In 1950 graduated from Odessa Pirogov Medical Institute.
Holdin Semyon Abramovich - Outstanding clinician-oncologist, was graduated in 1919 from Odessa National Medical University.
Notable faculty
Valeriy Zaporozhan, Rector 1994-2018
. Vacili Yakovich Bulgarian, Associate professor of Anatomy 1992-1999.
