Professor Anatoly Yakovlevich Ivanov – surgeon, scientist, teacher (on the 120th anniversary of his birth)

Abstract

In 2023, the 120th anniversary of the birth of the famous surgeon, prominent scientist, talented teacher, Professor A.Ya. Ivanov will be celebrated. Graduated from the Odessa Medical Institute in 1926, he worked as a surgeon in hospitals of the Ukrainian SSR, and then in Leningrad. During the Great Patriotic War – senior surgeon of the hospital in besieged Leningrad, and since 1943 – the chief surgeon of the army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. After the war, Anatoly Yakovlevich’s entire career was connected with the Department of General Surgery of the Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Medical Institute, where he made the way from assistant (1947), associate professor (1951), professor (1957) to head of the department (1960). From 1956 to 1973, A.Ya. Ivanov simultaneously held the position of director (rector) of the Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Medical Institute. He proved himself as a high-class surgeon, organizer of the scientific and pedagogical process. Under his leadership, new areas of work of the clinic were created, in particular, one of the first vascular surgery departments in the country was opened. It should be noted the breadth of A. Ya. Ivanov’s horizons and the variety of the studied scientific issues. Under his leadership, 3 doctoral and 20 candidate dissertations were defended, he was the author of more than 100 scientific papers. He was awarded orders and medals of the USSR. He died on August 26, 1988, and was buried at the Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg.