The article is devoted to the history of the Department of physical training of the military medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov. The article briefly highlights the key periods of education and formation of the Department of physical training, since 1900, when the initiative of a number of progressive professors of the Academy was formed by the Commission on physical exercises of students, which included the great Russian scientists, professors I.P. Pavlov and G.I. Turner. For students, optional classes in gymnastics, fencing, skating, game in small towns, riding began to be carried out. It was 1900 consider the beginning of the introduction to the educational process of the Academy of physical education classes, which became the basis for the formation of Throughout the period, the faculty of the Department of physical training worked outstanding athletes, the merits of which the Department of physical training and the Academy will always be proud. This is the honored master of sports of the Soviet Union and Russia, Champions and winners of Olympic, World, Europe, Soviet Union, and Russia: a fencer B.B. Melnikov, biathlete N.W. Puzanov, volleyball A.N. Einhorn and P.I. Voronin, gunner M.B. Umarov, a fighter, A.B. Novikov, honored coach of Russia and honored worker of physical culture of the Russian Federation A.S. Rakhlin, and others. For the glorious, eventful history of the Department of physical training, repeatedly changed its name, but one thing has always remained unchanged: at the Department of physical training worked and work highly qualified specialists, and a historical essay about the Department of physical training allows us to come close to all generations from the date of its formation to the present time.