The «firstborn» of state medicine: to the 315th anniversary of the founding of the Moscow military hospital

In 2021, the first Russian state inpatient medical institution – the N.N.Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital – celebrated the 315th anniversary of its foundation. The hospital was founded in 1706 by the decree of Peter I in Moscow, near the location of the Lefortovo regiment, and began work in 1707. The hospital school began training the first domestic doctors, the treatment of patients was combined with training, thereby laying the foundations of Russian clinical medicine. Over the centuries, with the talent and work of the team, these traditions have been creatively developed, the medical and scientific potential has increased, the technique and equipment have been improved, but the readiness to serve the Motherland and the defenders of the Fatherland, and the high professionalism of the employees have remained unchanged. Wars and local conflicts with the use of more and more sophisticated types of weapons, epidemics, destructive natural disasters, and man-made disasters require constant improvement of assistance to the wounded and injured, therefore the readiness of the N.N.Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital to provide high-quality medical care should always be constant.