Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine

The Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine (Russian: Институт скорой помощи имени Склифосовского), known more commonly as the Sklifosovsky Institute or by the nickname Sklif, is an emergency medicine research hospital in the Meshchansky District of Moscow, Russia.^[1] Named for the Russian surgeon and physiologist N. V. Sklifosovsky, it is located on the Garden Ring circular ring road around the centre of Moscow.

Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine
Geography
Location	Moscow, Russia
Coordinates	55°46′24″N 37°38′07″E
Organisation
Funding	Government hospital
Network	Health Department of the Government of Moscow
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Helipad	Yes
History
Opened	1810
Links
Website	sklif.mos.ru (in Russian)
Lists	Hospitals in Russia

It was one of the first in Russia and is the largest multidisciplinary scientific and practical center in the capital.^[2] It specialises in emergency medical care, emergency surgery, resuscitation, combined and burn trauma, emergency cardiology and acute poisoning.^[3]

The main building of the Sklifosovsky Institute, pictured in 1914

The Sklifosovsky Institute played a major part in Moscow's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]

In fiction

The hospital was the setting of the long-running Russian TV medical drama Sklifosovsky.