Professor Georgy Savvovich Chepcheruk (on the 80<sup>th</sup> anniversary of his birthday)

Abstract

Georgy Savvovich Chepcheruk was born on September 8, 1942 in the village of Gremyache, Rivne region of the Ukrainian SSR. After graduating from elementary school in 1955, he studied at the Dubna Medical School in the Rivne region until 1958. Then, for two years, he worked as the head of the feldsher-midwife station. In 1960, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army. He began his service as a paramedic of an artillery regiment, from where, in 1962, he entered the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov. He graduated from the Academy in 1968 with a GOLD MEDAL. After graduating from the Academy, he served for 4 years as the head of the medical service of a submarine in the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet. In 1972, having successfully passed the entrance exams, he entered the postgraduate course at the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov. In 1976, he defended his PhD dissertation on the subject: «Clotted hemothorax and early fibrinothorax after pneumonectomy». He held positions from teacher to deputy head of the department. From 1984 to 1987, he served in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan as an adviser to the chief surgeon of the Central Military Hospital in Kabul. In 1988, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the subject: «Pathogenetic bases for the prevention and treatment of pleural empyema». From 1989 to 1994 – Deputy Head of the Department of Hospital Surgery. From this position in 1994, he retired from the ranks of the Armed Forces continuing to work in civil healthcare on the basis of the hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg until 2018. Georgy Savvovich devoted all his main activities in medicine to thoracic surgery. The results of his practical and scientific activity of many years were published in more than 170 scientific papers, 7 monographs and guidelines for physicians. Georgy Savvovich was a «pioneer» in the use of direct-acting fibrinolytic therapy in thoracic surgery as an alternative to surgical treatment in such pathological conditions as fibrinothorax, pleural empyema, clotted hemothorax.