Hospital's story

For a whole century, medical workers of the Belarusian Railway have been protecting the health of railway workers. From primitive "reception rooms" at the beginning of the 20th century to a multidisciplinary city hospital - this is the glorious path of the 11th City Clinical Hospital (Road Hospital) over the years. And on this path - many thousands of grateful people returned to normal life. The hospital named as Road Hospital is only a few years old. It was created on the basis of a railway hospital with a history of more than 100 years.

• 1889-1914: Foundation and early years

  The first mention of a railway hospital at the Minsk station dates back to 1889. It was created by the Moscow-Brest Railway Company, was maintained at its expense, was intended for medical care of its employees, had a capacity of 6 beds, and was located in the building of the technical railway school. The hospital was headed by doctor S. Ioffe. The Minsk railway junction included two lines: Moscow-Brest and Libavo-Romenskaya. In addition to the hospital, medical care for railway workers was provided by 4 outpatient clinics, which were called emergency rooms at that time. They employed 4 doctors, 4 paramedics, and 2 dentists. The medical staff was trained to provide assistance in accidents and crashes. Its equipment included a set of medicines and dressings, obstetric bags, and a stretcher. In 1914, the construction of the railway hospital was completed. But due to the First World War, the hospital building was given over to a military hospital for wounded soldiers.

• 1922-1941: Formation and development

  During the war, the hospital suffered significant damage. But a month after the liberation of Minsk, 100 beds were functioning in the restored building, and in 1947 – 176 beds.

• 1941-1947: War years and reconstruction

  The railway hospital was opened in 1922. Its capacity was 52 beds (20 therapeutic, 20 surgical, 12 infectious). The first chief physician of the hospital was Professor Sergei Ivanovich Lebedkin, head of the Department of Anatomy of the Medical Faculty of BSU. In subsequent years, the hospital expanded. In the early 1930s, the number of beds increased to 70, in 1936, 40 more were put into operation, and by the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, it had 155 beds. The following departments were functioning: therapeutic, surgical, obstetrics and gynecology, tuberculosis.

• 1953-1988: Post-war development

  In 1953, a methodological, consultative and medical centre for the entire Belarusian Railway and a 250-bed road hospital were organised on the basis of the Minsk Railway Hospital. By 1967, the hospital had been expanded to 275 beds. In 1970, a new hospital was commissioned in another location in Minsk. It was united with its predecessor under a single management, with a total bed capacity of 750 beds. Outpatient care for railway workers and their families was provided at a polyclinic located in the first building of the hospital at Minsk-Tovarnaya station. In 1988, a new polyclinic for adults and children with 840 visits per shift was commissioned on Voronyansky Street.

Hospital Directors

Over the years, the hospital was headed by doctors: in the pre-war period, Sergei Ivanovich Lebedkin (1922 - 1926), Dolmatsky (since 1926), Pavel Pavlovich Dolgolikov (since 1939), and in the post-war period - Grechikova Zinaida Vasilievna, German Iosif Petrovich, Konopelko Vasily Vasilievich, Syapich Pavel Ignatievich, Korvigov Gennady Konstantinovich, Vechersky Grigory Arsentievich (1968 - 1970), Okunev Ivan Martynovich (1970 - 1978), Zyuzenkov Viktor Vasilievich (1978 - 2000 d.), Drozdov Alexander Ivanovich (2001 - 2002), Krylovich Valery Nikolaevich (2002 - 2003). Lunevsky Vitaly Adamovich (2003-2010), Kazachenok Zhanna Viktorovna (2010-2020), Vrublevsky Valery Anatolyevich (2021-2022), Tabankov Andrey (2023-2024).