Krivsky, Leonid Aleksandrovich

KRIVSKY, Leonid Aleksandrovich (born 1870), one of the prominent contemporary Russian gynecologists, professor of obstetrics and women's diseases at the State Institute of Medical Knowledge. He graduated from the Military Medical Academy in 1894 and received the title of privatdozent in 1913. Krivsky's scientific and practical work took place in the former St. Petersburg Lying-in Institution, in municipal maternity homes, and in the gynecological department of the Obukhov Hospital (where Krivsky organized the obstetrical and gynecological clinic of the State Institute of Medical Knowledge). Krivsky has about 60 published works; among them should be noted his dissertation "On the Question of Posterior Parietal Insertion of the Head" (St. Petersburg, 1905), a series of articles on repeat Cesarean section (1904, 1908), on hebosteotomy "The Present State of Hebosteotomy" (Vrach. gaz., 1912, nos. 35-36), on uterine cancer "Radical Abdominal Operation for Uterine Cancer Based on Materials from the Gynecological Department of the Obukhov Hospital" (Zh. ak. i zen. bolezney, 1914, nos. 6-8), as well as "Treatment of Uterine Myomas" (Zh. akush. i zhenskikh bolezney, vol. XXXIX, bk. 5, 1928)—a work based on 128 questionnaires covering 12,237 cases.

The collaborative "Guide to Women's Diseases" (Leningrad, 1927), published under Krivsky's editorship, enjoys great popularity. Krivsky is the editor of many scientific journals, takes an active part in social and scientific life and in the organization of scientific congresses, and serves on the presidium of the oldest Leningrad Obstetrical and Gynecological Society and as a board member of the All-Union Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians.