title: [The contribution of the Military Medical Academy to space exploration].
abstract: The article examines the contribution of the Military Medical Academy as an educational, research and medical institutions in the establishment and development of the national Russian manned spaceflight. Lists the names of the Academy's scientists, working in laboratories and in the Cosmonaut Training Center. In 1958 the academy was formed Department of Aviation Medicine from the research laboratories of aviation medicine, psychophysiology, and encephalography, a division of pressure chambers and furnaces. Direct contribution to the preparation of the first manned space flight made by graduates of the academy, E.A. Karpov (the first chief of Cosmonauts Training Center. Yuri Gagarin) and I.A. Kolosov. Over the half century history of the Russian Space Military Medical Academy, prepared and sent to the CPC Gagarin more than 110 of its graduates.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Belevitin
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Tsygan
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Blaginin
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Kaltygin
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D000337:Aerospace Medicine / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D012426:Russia; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D013026:Space Flight / Q000266:history*; D014586:USSR; D000078329:Workforce