75th Anniversary of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and 3 Orthopaedics named after N.N. Priorov

Abstract

The birthday of the N.N. Priorov Central Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics. N.N. Priorov was born on April 22, 1921, when the Medical and Orthopedic Institute was opened in Moscow, house 16, Teply Pereulok. Its main purpose was to render aid to invalids of the First World War and the Civil War. The initiative to create the institute belonged to Prof. V.N. Rozanov, a major general surgeon, and Nikolai Nikolaevich Priorov, a young doctor, a former assistant of V.N. Rozanov, was appointed chief physician.