Dear friends!

I sincerely congratulate all of you on the 210^th anniversary of Kharkiv higher medical school, the official representative of which is Kharkiv National Medical University.

Kharkiv National Medical University is one of the oldest higher medical schools of our country which strives to follow the best traditions established by generations of outstanding scientists and teachers.

Students have been graduating from KhNMU for more than 200 years so it rightly deserves deep respect. During these years our University has come a long way and become one of the largest and most important universities of the country. Age-old traditions are carefully preserved here, referring to the practice and theory of the best representatives of our medical school. And nowadays high scientific potential of the university is still constantly enriched with interesting ideas and projects.

The University’s Jubilee is a time which gives the right to be proud of vast experience, wisdom and professionalism, the next step of great and exciting way, the implementation of the boldest ideas. I am sure that achievement of symbolic standarts, which were set by the prominent represantatives of Kharkiv higher medical education for more than two centuries will maintain on the same level and many glorious pages will be inscribed in the history of our University.

The Rector of University Vladimir Lesovoy