Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Никола́й Ни́лович Бурде́нко; 22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian surgeon, the founder of the Russian neurosurgery. He was a Head surgeon of the Red Army (1937-1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944-1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), colonel-general of medicin...
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Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Никола́й Ни́лович Бурде́нко; 22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian surgeon, the founder of the Russian neurosurgery. He was a Head surgeon of the Red Army (1937-1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944-1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), colonel-general of medicine, Stalin Prize-winner (1941). He was a participant of the Russo-Japanese, First World, Winter and Great Patriotic wars.
Nikolay Burdenko was born 3 June 1876 in the village of Kamenka in Nizhnelomovsky Uyezd of Penza Governorate. In 1891, he entered to the theological seminary and after graduation in 1897 he went to Tomsk where has been admitted to the recently opened Tomsk State University. After finishing two courses, Burdenko was excluded from the university for the participation in the student revolutionary movement and was forced to...
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