About Russia

Russia or the Russian Federation is a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, covering 17,125,191 square kilometres (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has borders with sixteen sovereign nations. It has a population of 146.2 million; and is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world. Moscow the capital is the largest city in Europe, while Saint Petersburg is the nation's second-largest city and cultural centre. Russians are the largest Slavic and European nation.

Russia country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Russia is a land of superlatives. By far the world’s largest country, it covers nearly twice the territory of Canada, the second largest. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and the eastern third of Europe, spanning 11 time zones and incorporating a great range of environment. The inhabitants of Russia are quite diverse. Most are ethnic Russians. Russia’s climate is extreme, with forbidding winters that have several times famously saved the country from foreign invaders. Although the climate adds a layer of difficulty to daily life, the land is a generous source of crops and materials, including vast reserves of oil and gas.

Five years ago, fundamental changes began in Russian healthcare, one of them was the creation of the large national medical research centers. At the suggestion of Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, three well-known and authoritative collectives were united: P. Hertsen Moscow Oncology Research Institute (MORI); A. Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Centre (MRRC); N. Lopatkin Scientific Research Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology (SRIUIR) – in 2014, the the Federal State Budgetary Institution “National Medical Research Radiological Centre” (NMRRC) of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation was established on their basis. Of course, at the beginning of the journey there was a lot of thinking about how to preserve the best in this new configuration, not to lose the tradition. Today, when the problem of fighting cancer worldwide has come to the fore, and in our country has become a national priority, we understand how timely was the decision to create the first such oncocluster in Russia. Today, more than three thousand people work in our joint center, we perform more than 16,000 operations a year, more than 3000000 studies, test a large number of new drugs and modern techniques.

Our specialists perform unique operations: they completely restore speech and normal functions of the tongue, pharynx, larynx from the patient’s own biomaterial; they perform radioembolization using domestic microspheres developed by us, we do brachytherapy on the liver and pancreas using the domestic radioisotope Iodine 125. Competent routing between the branches of the Center allows the patient who came to us to go through a complete vicious circle of combined and complex diagnostics and treatment, including surgery, various options for drug and radiation treatment.

Opportunities for international cooperation are wide – colleagues from reputable foreign cancer centers consult with us, with whom we have signed more than one agreement on real joint projects over the past two years. A common teleplatform is being created in the field of the exchange of morphological and clinical data, the plans include the second proton and the first ion center in the post–Soviet space together with Japanese colleagues. They come to us for experience, and they are surprised at what significant results we have been able to achieve in some five years. This became possible thanks to the synergy of our association and state support for our discipline-oncology. The effectiveness and targeting proclaimed by the new program for the fight against oncological diseases, multidisciplinary approach in solving the tasks set have become a reliable basis for its implementation.

Director General of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “National Medical Research Radiological Centre” (NMRRC) of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Director of the P. Hertsen Moscow Oncology Research Institute (MORI) – branch of the FSBI “National Medical Research Radiological Centre” (NMRRC) of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Chief oncologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

Official Name-- Russian Federation
Short Name- Russia
Capital- Moscow
Continent- Western Asia and Eastern Europe
Local Language- Russian
Currency- Ruble
Neighbouring countries- 14 (Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Latvia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Norway, Estonia, Mongolia, and North Korea.)
Known for- Largest Country in the world by Area, Veto Member of United Nations