Vladimir Leonidovich Borman - the first pediatric surgeon of the Imperial Kazan University

Abstract

Vladimir Leonidovich Borman was the first pediatric surgeon of the Imperial Kazan University, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I and the Civil War. In 1900 a novel course of pediatric surgical diseases was started at the university. A new pediatric clinic was launched among other new clinics, and Vladimir Leonidovich Borman, a surgeon and a doctor of medicine, was invited to head one of the departments there. Since then the teaching of pediatric surgical diseases for Imperial Kazan University medical faculty students has been performed at the pediatric ward of the faculty surgery clinic. Then Vladimir Leonidovich participated in surgical service foundation in many parts of the country both at peace and wartime, he became the founder of the Omsk State Medical University department of hospital surgery. The contribution of that amazing, energetic, talented doctor and teacher to Russian medicine can not be overestimated.