NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVITCH AMOSOV - EMINENT GRADUATE OF ARKHANGELSK STATE MEDICAL INSTITUTE ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH

Abstract

The article is devoted to the life and work of N.M. Amosov (1913-2002), a graduate of the Arkhangelsk State Medical Institute (now the Northern State Medical University) of 1939, a surgeon, a scientist, a teacher, a journalist and a writer, who became one of the largest cardiosurgeons of the Soviet Union and the leader of this trend in cardiology and surgery in Ukraine in the 2 nd half of the XX century. In the article, little-known facts of N.M. Amosov’s work and study in Arkhangelsk in 1932-1940 as well as his contribution to development of cardiac and vascular surgery in the USSR and in Ukraine have been emphasized.