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 ==Notable graduates==