Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of establishing the Department of Pediatric Surgery and UrologyAndrology of theSechenovUniversity. The role of the first PD of the EmperorMoscowUniversity and founder of pediatric surgery as a science Leonty P. Aleksandrov was described. He organized a course devoted to pediatric surgical diseases in 1893 and was the head physician of Saint Olga’sPediatricHospital. He also founded the Society of Pediatric Surgeons inMoscow, and was an initiator of the meeting of Russian surgeons conducting serious work on the organization of meetings of Russian surgeons in memory of N. I. Pirogov. In 2008, he founded a Department of Pediatric Surgery and Urology-Andrology of theFirstMoscowStateUniversitynamed after I. M. Sechenov. The article describes therapeutic, research, organizational and pedagogical work of the department since its establishment till now.

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