title: [Ivan Stepanovich Kolesnikov--"general of surgery" (the 110th anniversary of his birth)].
abstract: The article is devoted to the 110th anniversary of outstanding surgeon, scientist and educator, academician of the USSR Ivan Stepanovich Kolesnikov. During the Great Patriotic War--he was an army surgeon on the Central Front, and then--in Leningrad. As one of the pioneers of thoracic surgery, the first in the Soviet Union began to apply the resection of pulmonary tuberculosis, cancer, and acute and chronic suppurative diseases of the lung and pleura, reflecting the experience of more than 4,000 thousand operations in numerous monographs and published in 1960, major work, "Resection lights". On his initiative in 1961 was the first in the Soviet Union an independent chair of the thermal lesions, and in 1964--the country's first intensive care unit and intensive care. He published over 200 papers on topical issues of surgery, including 28 monographs. Under his leadership were trained 25 Ph.D. and 43 master's theses.
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Kotiv
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Karpovich
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D011173:Portraits as Topic; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000266:history*; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D014586:USSR; D047789:World War II