Mogilev. Medical College

There is a state medical college in the city of Mogilev, which begins its history as early as 1865. It was in the 19th century that a midwifery school was opened in Mogilev as an independent educational institution. Midwives are medical midwives who delivered babies. The midwifery school was opened at the suggestion of the obstetrician of the Mogilev Provincial Medical Board, Nikolai Mandelstam.

 A separate three-storey stone building was built for the school, which is still located near Ordzhonikidze Square on K. Marx Street, the former Zelenaya Street.

The midwifery school was attended by women who were between 20 and 35 years old. 18 people were accepted for each course: 4 people from volunteer students and 14 from peasant women and the payment was 40 rubles for each course of study. The teachers at the school were Director M. Mandelstam and highly qualified doctors, graduates of Moscow, Kiev and Kharkov universities. Since 1874, the school has become the central midwifery school for Mogilev, Vitebsk and Minsk provinces. Most of the students studied for 2 years. Since 1875, a school was opened for paramedics, for which a three-storey stone building was specially built, which now houses building No. 1 of the Mogilev State Medical College. At the beginning of the 20th century, the paramedic school was transformed into the Mogilev paramedic – obstetric school.

 After the revolution in the 1920s, a medical college was opened on the basis of the school, and then a medical polytechnic. Then it was called the medical school. And since 2007, the institution has been called the Mogilev State Medical College.