Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko

BURDENKO, Nikolai Nilovich, born in 1878. Graduated from Yuryev University in 1906/07. During the Russo-Japanese War, he worked in a field surgical detachment under the leadership of Prof. Zege-Manteuffel, in whose clinic he subsequently completed his residency and assistantship.

After which he was sent abroad for advanced training, where he worked for two years in various clinics in Germany, Switzerland, and France. In addition to surgical clinics, Burdenko studied a number of issues in clinics for nervous diseases, dealing with questions of topical diagnosis from a surgical point of view (in the clinics of Krause and Oppenheim). In 1910, he was elected privat-docent of surgery, and in 1911, professor of the department of operative surgery at Yuryev University. From the beginning of the imperialist war, he worked as a consulting surgeon on various fronts. In March 1917, he was appointed by the Provisional Government to the position of Chief Military Sanitary Inspector, in which position he remained until June 1917; in November 1917, he was elected to the chair of the faculty surgical clinic of Yuryev University and remained in this position even after the university moved to Voronezh. In 1922, he was elected to the chair of operative surgery and topographic anatomy, and in 1924 to the chair of the faculty surgical clinic of the 1st Moscow State University, which he occupies at the present time. He is a member of the State Scientific Medical Council, editor of the Surgical Department of the Great Medical Encyclopedia, editor-in-chief of the "Bulletin of Modern Surgery," and one of the three editors of the Medical Department of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Among Burdenko's works on various issues of clinical and experimental surgery, the most important are his works on the surgery of the central and peripheral nervous system, experimental studies on the etiology of round gastric ulcer, the application of the Besredka method in surgical clinics, and many others.