Rakhmanov Clinic of Skin and Venereal Diseases, I.M.Setchenov First Moscow State Medical University

Before organization of Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases at the University, these diseases were presented by therapists and surgeons. The Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases was created at the Moscow University on May 27, 1869. At the end of the 19 th century N.P.Mansurov found a sponsor for the constraction of the clinical base of the Department - Gavriil Gavriilovich Solodovnikov, a merchant. The Clinic of Skin and Venereal Diseases was opened on February 19, 1895, and in 1897 at the International Congress of Physicians in Moscow it was unanimously acknowledged to be the best in Europe. The first head of the Clinic was A.I.Pospelov The clinic continued working during the Great Patriotic War. In 2013-2014 the building was reconstructed at the initiative of the University and is now working again.

Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, merchant Solodovnikov G.G., Clinic of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Moscow Society of Venereologists and Dermatologists, Great Patriotic War, second life of clinic, G.G.Solodovnikov’s great great daughter, Jennifer Slevin