Creativity of Professor S.P. Fedorov and his contribution to the development of scientific and practical urology of Georgia (to the 150th anniversary of his birth)

Abstract

The important scientific and practical achievements of S.P. Fedorov as a urologist are highlighted. Little-known facts from the creative and pedagogical life of a scientist are considered. The contribution of S.P. Fedorov in the formation and development of urology in Georgia. The merits of outstanding surgeons and urologists of Georgia of that period and their scientific cooperation with S.P. are briefly noted. Fedorov. The fact that the main area of scientific activity of S.P. Fedorov were problems of surgery of the urinary and biliary tract. He summarized the extensive experience of the surgeon in the Atlas of Cystoscopy and Rectoscopy (1911), the manual Surgery of the kidneys and ureters (1923–1925), and others. An important merit of S.P. Fedorov in front of domestic surgery was the organization of him together with Ya.O. Halpern edition of the surgical journal «New Surgical Archive», essentially the first Soviet surgical journal, created in the difficult years of the Civil War and the post-war devastation. He was the editor of the 1st edition of the Big Medical Encyclopedia, together with S.S. Girgolav and A.V. Martynov was the editor of the multivolume Guide to Practical Surgery. S.P. Fedorov created a large domestic surgical school, from which dozens of specialists, heads of surgical departments of medical universities in various cities of the Soviet Union, came out. Name S.P. Fedorov assigned to the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Military Medical Academy. CM. Kirov. S.P. Fedorov was the first Soviet surgeon to be awarded the Order of Lenin (1933).