The Tashkent Medical Academy or TMA () is a public undergraduate and graduate medical school and research university based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The TMA is one of the oldest and largest Universities in Uzbekistan, the center of medical education and research in medicine and Life Sciences in the Republic. It was founded in 1920 as Faculty of Medicine at the Turkestan State University and renamed to the Tashkent Medical Institute (ru.wikipedia.org: Ташкентский медицинский институт) in 1931, and became two separate Medical Universities: the First Tashkent State Medical Institute and the Second Tashkent State Medical Institute in 1990. The Tashkent Medical Academy was formed in 2005 by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov by merging the First and Second Tashkent State Medical Institutes. The main campuses are located in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The TMA includes six faculties, 52 departments, Multidisciplinary Clinic of TMA, as well as the Interuniversity Research Scientific Laboratory. There are three branches of TMA which function as independent institutions in the cities of Urgench, Termez and Fergana. History Medical Faculty of Turkestan State University (1919-1931) Given the urgent need for training doctors in Turkestan, on August 2, 1919, the Department of Higher Education Institutions approved the organization of a medical faculty at Turkestan State University. On September 17, 1919, the opening of the first Turkestan State University took place, and professor P.P. Sitkovsky (Ситковский П.П.) was elected dean of the medical faculty. 1919-1921 the material and technical base of the medical faculty was created, and in 1921, first medical students were enrolled for studies. Medical Faculty deans P.F.Borovsky (1926-1928) (Боровский П.Ф. ), N.I. Ragoza (1928-1929)). and G.P. Fedorov (1929-1931) made a great contribution to the medicine development. Tashkent Medical Institute (1935-1990) In 1931, Tashkent Medical Institute (Ташкентский медицинский институт) was established on the basis of the Faculty of Medicine at the Turkestan State University. The first rector was G.P. Fedorov, who was then worked as the dean as of the medical faculty. The second rector of the institute was Kh.U. Umarov. During the World War II (1941-1945), more than 10 evacuation hospitals were opened at the Tashkent Medical Institute, and professors e.g. D.A. Vvedensky (Введенский Д.А.), L.D. Vasilenko, A.M. Geller, B.A. Stekolnikov and others went to the front of war. Of 2,122 doctors trained during the World War II period, 1,630 of them were sent to the front. In memory