Chronology of events
1930
The decision to open the first medical university in Kazakhstan was made by the RSFSR Council of People's Commissars on 10.07.1930. The decree, titled "Network, structure, and admission quota for higher education institutions under RSFSR governance for the 1930/1931 academic year," included 18 universities, among which was: "Alma-Ata. Medical Institute. Therapeutic and Preventive Faculty. Admission: Winter 1930/1931 - 100 people." A copy of this historic document is preserved in our university's History Museum. Student admissions began in December 1930 and continued actively until October 5, 1931. By the end of the admission period, the first-year cohort consisted of 289 students, including 30.1% women, 51.9% Kazakhs, 36.7% Russians, and 11.4% from other Eastern ethnicities. Upon its opening, the institute had 10 departments staffed by 5 professors, 4 associate professors, and 15 assistants and lecturers.
1931
S.Zh. Asfendiyarov served as director (rector) of KazGMI until May 30, 1931, when he was appointed People's Commissar of Health of the Kazakh ASSR by the KazCIK decree on May 28, 1931. The second director of the medical institute was Isengali Kasabulatov.
1933
In November 1933, Khairira Mukhametovna Mukhametova was appointed director of the institute, becoming the only woman in the institute's history to hold this position. She served for one year, during which she organized many of the institute's functional departments, implemented methodological work, organized a competition for the best lecturer, oversaw the localization of the teaching staff, and proposed calculating the average scores of each student based on exam results. Mukhametova also initiated the construction of the zero cycle of the morphological building (now the rectorate) and actively monitored the construction schedule.
1934
The number of students increased, with 26 study groups in 1934, 34 in 1935, and 45 in 1936. The ethnic composition of students changed significantly: Kazakhs, who made up 51.9% of the first cohort in 1931, constituted only 17.6% of the student body by 1936.
1936
On February 22, 1936, the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh ASSR issued Decree No. 147, naming KazGMI after V. Molotov in honor of the first graduation of doctors in Kazakhstan. At this time, the institute had 34 departments and 109 teaching staff, including 22 professors.
1938
In 1938, an order was issued to open a pediatric faculty at KazGMI with an admission of 75 students. Professor Alexander Ivanovich Malinin, head of the obstetrics and gynecology department, served as the first dean of the pediatric faculty from 1938 to 1941.