On April 16, 1939, a Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars
of the Kyrgyz SSR was adopted, the first paragraph of which read as
“to open the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute in Frunze from
September 1, 1939 with the recruitment of 200 students for 1 course”.
The foundation of the first higher medical school was laid by
professors and teachers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kharkov and
Kiev. In 1943 the first graduation of students of medical institute with
amount of 120 doctors took place.
The 1st Moscow, Leningrad, Alma-Ata, Tashkent and other medical
institutions have shown invaluable assistance in the organization of
the Institute. They provided consulting and organizational assistance,
provided medical literature and sent teaching staff for permanent
work at the Institute