The history of the tradition of teaching foreign citizens dates back to 1961, when the Kuban State Medical Institute named after The Red Army received the first and only foreign citizen at that time to study at a state university, a Yemeni citizen, MOHAMED MAHDI AL Muzwani, who received a medical degree in 1967. On a voluntary basis, the first dean for international students in the years1967-1968 was Oleg Vasilyevich Dubinkin, who worked at that time as an associate professor of the Department of Operative Surgery with Topographic Anatomy, his deputies were Evfalia Nikandrovna Khristoforova, an assistant at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, and Nina Romanovna Dontsova, head of the Department of Russian Language. As the number of foreign students increased, the staff of the Department of Foreign Languages were among the first to supervise their stay. They took into account the individual characteristics of students from different countries who had no idea about the life, history, culture, and everyday life of Russia. Largely due to the efforts of teachers and supervisors of international students, graduates of the university include heads of national health systems, large hospitals, medical educational institutions, scientists and doctors who work for the benefit of people all over the world. In 1967-1973 he was the head of work with foreign students Nikolai Ivanovich Muratov, in those years the head of the Department of ENT Diseases. In 1973-1976 Nikolai Ivanovich Repetun – Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine. The full-time dean’s office for work with foreign students at Kuban Medical Institute was established in 1976, when the number of foreign students exceeded 100, and its first dean (from 1976 to 1978) was the head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Yuri Terentyevich Orekhov.. From 1978 to 1981 – Associate Professor of the Department of Faculty Surgery, Candidate of Medical Sciences Vladimir Mikhailovich Novikov. By the time the number of foreign students reached 300, in 1981 the position of Vice-rector for International Relations was introduced at the university. In this position from 1981 to 1983 worked as a professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Grigory Kuzmich Sokushev. Then the work with foreign students at the university was led by Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy Igor Nikolaevich Remizov (from 1984 to 1985), associate professor of the Department of Biology Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Sysoev (1986-1991). From 1991 to 2008 the duties of the Vice-rector for Academic Affairs with foreign students and International Relations were performed by the head of the Department of Public Health and Public Health of the FPC and Teaching Staff, Professor Boris Viktorovich Kazarin, who made a huge contribution to the development of this area of activity of the university. From 2008 to 2009 the international sector was headed by Andrey Nikolaevich Redko, Head of the Department of Public Health and Public Health and History of Medicine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. Subsequently, the position of Vice-rector for International Relations was reduced, and in the future, the Dean’s office of the Faculty for work with foreign students is directly subordinate to the rector and vice-rectors in their respective fields of activity. The Dean’s Office of the Faculty for Work with Foreign Students was headed by: from 1981 to 1991 – Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate ProfessorIgor Alekseevich Yurin; from 1991 to 1994 – Associate Professor of the Department of Histology, Candidate of Medical Sciences Viktor Ivanovich Dudetsky; from 1994 to 1995 – Head of the Department of Orthopedic Dentistry, MD, Professor, Honored Doctor of Russia Valery Vasilyevich Yerichev; from 1995 to 1996 – Associate Professor of the Department of Allergology, Clinical Immunology and Laboratory Diagnostics, Candidate of Medical Sciences Tatiana Vladimirovna Sundatova; from 1996 to 1998 – Assistant Professor of the Russian Language Department Alexander Dmitrievich Danilevsky;
from 1998 to 1999 – Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Valery Anatolyevich Porodenko; from 1999 to 2008 the dean’s office was headed by the Head of the Department of Hygiene with Ecology, Professor, Honored Health Worker of the Russian Federation Peter Vladimirovich Nefedov; from 2008 to 2011 the Dean’s office was led by Professor of the Department of Fundamental and Clinical Biochemistry Ivan Ivanovich Pavlyuchenko; from 2011 to 2012 the duties of the dean of the faculty were performed by the senior lecturer of the Department of Mobilization training of Public Health and Disaster Medicine, the lieutenant colonel of the military reserve Marat Munirovich Munasypov. During the existence of the faculty for work with foreign students, a large number of managers have been replaced, but the main task of the dean’s office was to support and assist foreign students in staying and adapting to life in a foreign country, and not just to train a doctor. Until 1991, foreign students studied in groups with Soviet students, which contributed to better mutual understanding and improved language training by learning Russian in the process of informal extracurricular communication with domestic students. Foreign students, together with domestic students, took an active part in the social life of the institute, amateur performances, demonstrations, rallies, clean-up days, and in the third (labor) semester. Visiting the cities of the Russian Federation and the republics of the USSR contributed not only to getting to know the Soviet people, their history, achievements of Soviet healthcare and medical science during the period of socialist construction, but also provided an opportunity to acquaint foreign students with the peculiarities of work, everyday life, traditions, character of the Soviet people, with the heroism of medical workers during the Great Patriotic War, etc. From 1974 to 1986, a large group of students from the GDR studied at the university, then a medical institute. As the number of students at the university departments increased, the patronage of international students expanded. First, those responsible for working with foreign students (curators) were appointed, then each department took over the patronage of one or another fraternity. Department staff organized meeting evenings, regularly visited foreign students in dormitories, worked with them on university-wide clean-up days, etc. Since 1990, KubSMU has been working with foreign students mainly on contract terms, i.e. with full reimbursement of tuition costs by the students themselves, however, he continues to teach foreign citizens sent by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation through the STATE line. Since that time, foreign students have been studying in separate groups, which has made it possible to strengthen the individual work of teachers with foreign students and increase responsibility for the quality of their education. But since 2011, it has been decided to teach foreign students in joint groups with Russian students. Foreign students speak their language less and communicate more in Russian, which is important for assessing the responses of foreign students and their level of education. Also, educational, professional, and everyday discussions arise between Russian and foreign students, which are educational in nature and broaden the horizons of foreign students and their motivation for classes. Returning to our time, it should be noted that over the past 50 years, more than 3,500 doctors of various fields from more than 100 countries have been educated at the university. In July 2012, the Dean’s office of the Faculty for Work with foreign students was reorganized into an international department, the head of which was appointed Mammad-Ali Rakhmatullaevich Acheldyev. KubSMU has worked and continues to work with foreign students in post-graduate forms of education.
From 1967 to the present, during internship, clinical residency and postgraduate studies in surgery, traumatology and orthopedics, nervous diseases, therapy, obstetrics and gynecology, otorhinolaryngology, anesthesiology, pediatrics, urology, skin and venereal diseases, infectious diseases, ophthalmology, pathology anatomy, therapeutic dentistry, surgical dentistry, orthodontics at the relevant departments, etc., more than 850 specialists from around the world were trained (Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Morocco, Jordan, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Mauritius, Mexico, Iraq, Colombia, Chile, Chad, Vietnam, Jordan, Lebanon, PDRY, Morocco, etc.).
