In 1929, Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko and a neurologist V.V. Kramer founded the first neurosurgical clinic in Moscow, which was reorganized to the Institute of Neurosurgery in 1932. The Institute has come a long way through military and peaceful years, overcoming all sorts of obstacles. It has constantly developed, built, and modernized, and now this is the National Medical Research Center of Neurosurgery 1).

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Potapov AA, Likhterman LB, Danilov GV. [Neurosurgery in Moscow: clinic - institute - ational center]. Zh Vopr Neirokhir Im N N Burdenko. 2019;83(1):5-16. doi: 10.17116/neiro2019830115. Russian. PubMed PMID: 30900684.