S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
Identity
The primary placemark is consistent with the official main campus of the S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg. Academy contact pages and independent institutional listings place it at ul. Akademika Lebedeva, 6 (official correspondence also uses lit. Zh), 194044, Saint Petersburg; the World Directory of Medical Schools lists the school as currently operational. ([vmeda.org](https://www.vmeda.org/contacts/))
Institutional role
This is a Ministry of Defence military-medical higher education institution, not a standalone civilian hospital. Official academy history traces its medical-academy lineage to 1798, and the institution has carried the Kirov name since 14 April 1935. Its current structure includes faculties for senior medical leadership, Ground/Rocket/Airborne forces, Aerospace Forces, the Navy, foreign militaries, continuing professional education, civilian medical-pharmaceutical specialists, and secondary professional education. ([vmeda.org](https://www.vmeda.org/old_calendar/14-aprelya-1935-goda-voenno-medicinskoj-akademii-prisvoeno-imya-sergeya-mironovicha-kirova/))
Clinical and research base
The Saint Petersburg campus is both an educational and treatment complex. Official structure pages list a high-technology multidisciplinary clinical-diagnostic center of the Russian MoD, a research center, blood and tissue center, pharmaceutical center, and other central institutions. The academy’s clinical department states that its current clinical base includes 14 surgical clinics, 14 therapeutic clinics, 4 clinical centers, 6 clinical subdivisions, and 5 departments involved in care. Official 2024-2025 reporting also highlights a simulation center, tactical-medicine training, digital medical systems, and military-relevant wound-care and hemostatic developments. ([vmeda.org](https://www.vmeda.org/about-academy/s-01-03/))
Krasnoye Selo training site
The second placemark is consistent with the academy’s openly acknowledged training-support site in Krasnoye Selo. Official structure pages identify a training-support base there, and 2025-2026 admissions materials give the training center postal address as 198320, Saint Petersburg, Krasnoye Selo, a/ya 25. Recent official reporting shows this site being used for tactical-medicine instructor testing and for the 2025 Ochag field exercise, where deployable surgical, therapeutic, dental, radiology, laboratory, pharmacy, and anti-shock elements were set up in field conditions. ([vmeda.org](https://www.vmeda.org/about-academy/s-01-03/))
Attribution caveat
Open official sources confirm long-standing field-training infrastructure at Krasnoye Selo: an academy publication states that the Krasnoye Selo medical training ground entered the academy establishment in 1948 and was reorganized into a medical battalion supporting the training process in 1959, followed by construction of training fields, medical-evacuation positions, helipads, barracks, dining facilities, garages, and medical stores. However, current official academy admissions and structure pages publicly describe the present site simply as a training center or training-support base; I could not verify the exact current designation "50th Training Support Battalion" from authoritative open sources, so that specific label should be treated as unconfirmed. ([vmeda.org](https://www.vmeda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Izv_2_.pdf))