In Russia, neurology emerged as an independent discipline only in 1869, thanks to the efforts of Professor Alexei Kozhevnikov. Before that, she was an integral part of therapy and psychiatry. Ivan Pavlov made a significant contribution to the development of this area of knowledge. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
The first steps of Kursk neurology are associated with the formation of the Kursk Governmental National Hospital on Sadovaya Street. It is known from the history of the Kursk Territory that in 1865 the Kursk provincial zemstvo took over “charitable” institutions from the Order of Public Charity, and among them there was a “hospital for 150 beds.”
The Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery was founded in 1937 by Professor A.I. Zlatoverov, who was in charge of it until 1939.
In those years, the department was called the Department of Nervous Diseases and was located in the neurological department of the Kursk Regional Clinical Hospital. The neurological department had 25 beds and had 4 wards, a procedure room and a staff room. The employees also carried out medical and consultative work.
In 1957, the neurological department and the department were transferred to another building of the Regional Clinical Hospital – a “house with columns”, which made it possible to significantly increase the area of the clinical base.
By 1985, the neurological department and the rehabilitation department occupied two floors of the building on Sadovaya Street, the neurosurgical department was based on the territory of the hospital in the surgical building. In 1985, in connection with the commissioning of the buildings of the new Regional Clinical Hospital at 45 Sumskaya Street, the neurological and neurosurgical departments were transferred to new buildings, where they are located, respectively, on the 2nd and 7th floors of a 9-storey hospital.
Since 2007, the neurological department of the Emergency Hospital has become the second clinical base of the department.
In 2010, departments for the treatment of patients with acute cerebrovascular accidents were opened at the Regional Vascular Center on the basis of the Kursk Regional Clinical Hospital and the Emergency Hospital, which made it possible to introduce innovative methods of care for patients with strokes.
In 1995, the department was renamed and is currently called the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The history of the department and the formation of the Kursk neurological school is briefly presented at the link https://kurskmed.com/department/neurology/page/history