 "This section is based on "History of the Clinical Town on Devichye Pole""

Need for new hospitals for the public and training facilities for Moscow State University was imminent since the 1870s.Proposals by professor Novatsky (1873) and Varvara Morozova (1882) were left unfulfilled, but in 1884 the initiative of professor Nikolay Sklifosovskiy was approved by the City Hall.City issued free land in Devichye Pole (originally, 18 hectares), national government set aside 2 million roubles, the rest came from private sponsors (notably, Morozov, Khludov and Shelaputin families).