Photo Source: Moscow City Hall Press Service
With the newly purchased robotic surgeons, the total number of installations will reach 17.
With the help of robots in Moscow's public hospitals, 2,000 operations were performed in 2024, and in the current year 2025 – already more than 4,500 interventions, shared Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova. It is expected that more than 7,000 robot-assisted operations will be performed in 2026.
One of the pioneers of Moscow robotic surgery is Botkin Hospital, where about 500 operations are performed annually in the fields of urology, gynecology, oncology, thoracoabdominal and general surgery.
In 2024, new robots appeared, for example, in Hospital No. 13 – for joint replacement, as well as in MMCC "Kommunarka" and A.S. Loginov MKNC – Moscow's flagship oncology centers.
Operations using robotic systems are less traumatic for patients: recovery after them occurs faster, and the precision of manipulations increases, which means a reduction in the risk of complications. In addition, the surgical robotic complex allows for minimally invasive operations on organs that are difficult to access in open surgery.
Limitations on the widespread development of this type of medical care include the high cost of purchasing and maintaining equipment compared to traditional surgery, as well as the need to train surgeons to use the systems.
In Russia, robotic surgery is actively developing in major public and private surgical centers. Using Da Vinci systems, 3,700 operations were performed in 2020, and 5,700 in 2024.
At the first stage of robotic surgery development in Russia, installations appeared mainly in the largest federal medical centers, for example, the A.V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery, the B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center of Surgery, V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre, however, in recent years the technology has gained wide regional coverage. For example, robotic surgery programs are actively developing at the Prof. S.V. Ochapovsky Research Institute – Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Krasnodar, City Clinical Hospital No. 40 in St. Petersburg, and Bashkir State University in Ufa.
Among private clinics, such interventions are performed at "Medsi", Ilyinskaya Hospital, EMC, and since 2025 at "Mother and Child".
Source: Moscow Department of Healthcare
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