The first Russian woman doctor Varvara Aleksandrovna Kashevarova-Rudneva during the Orenburg period of her activity

Doctor V.A. Rudneva-Kashevarova (1844-1899), whose 180th birthday anniversary the medical community is celebrating this year, and who was one of the first Russian women doctors and the first woman doctor to receive a diploma in Russia, worked in the Orenburg province as a midwife. On September 3, the largest monument to doctors in Russia was unveiled in Orenburg. Dedicated to the civil theme of healing, the bas-reliefs of the above-mentioned monument begin with the image of Varvara Aleksandrovna Rudneva-Kashevarova, who came to the Orenburg province after learning that female midwives were needed to work with Muslim women. V.A. Rudneva-Kashevarova worked in the Orenburg region as a midwife of the Bashkir Cossack army.