Novosti
Khirurgii

SACHEK M.G.

TO THE ONE-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF BORIS VASIL’EVICH PETROVSKY, ACADEMICIAN OF RAS AND RAMS, HERO OF SOCIALIST LABOR, LAUREATE OF LENIN’S AND STATE AWARDS, AN OUTSTANDING SPECIALIST IN THE FIELD OF RECONSTRUCTIVE AND RESTORATIVE SURGERY

On the 27th of June, 2008, it will be the one-hundredth anniversary of Boris Vasil’evich Petrovsky, the academician of RAS and RAMS, the hero of socialist labor, the laureate of Lenin’s and state awards. He has contributed significantly to the development of not only the soviet but the world surgery; he has established the unique surgical school. Scientific creative work of Petrovsky can be characterized by the wide range of scientific medical problems, by constant desire for new prospects: from the formation of separate operative techniques to the entire tendencies in medicine. His central interests were reconstructive and restorative surgery of the heart and vessels, the lungs, bronchi, trachea, field surgery, oncology, transplantology, anaesthetization, the history of surgery. He was the originator of the development of organ transplantation, microsurgery, hyperbaric oxygenation, roentgenoendovascular surgery, complex investigations in the field of anesthesiology and resuscitation science. B.V. Petrovsky has received many government awards, but his role in the modern surgery is more fully determined by such honorable ranks and titles adjudged to him as “Legend of the century” and “Human-epoch”.

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