Established in 1878, Siberian State Medical University (SibMed) is one of the favored choices among Indian students studying MBBS in Russia. The university gained the status of the only flagship medical university in Russia in 2017. SibMed is one of the few institutions in Russia that has its own multidisciplinary university hospital. This affects the teaching staff and student body to a large extent. The teaching staff consists of 80% of specialists with academic degrees and titles and 50% practicing doctors. In addition to the multidisciplinary hospital, SibMed students can receive training at the modern simulation center, which is one of the two centers in the Russian Federation that has received accreditation from the European Society for Simulation in Medicine (SESAM). Siberian State Medical University is ranked in the top 3 medical schools and in top 30 higher educational institutions top 30 higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation (2015). Annually SibMed provides education to over 5 000 students from all parts of Russia and the CIS region as well as many foreign countries (Germany, Haiti, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Nigeria, Malaysia, India, Mongolia).