Ilizarov - The Teacher
Journal: Journal of Limb Lengthening & Reconstruction
Year: 2021

This year we are celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov, the founder and longtime director of the Kurgan Research and Scientific Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (KNIIEKOT as it was abbreviated then in Russian). He was also the creator of the Theory of Distraction Osteogenesis and inventor of the Ilizarov apparatus [Figure 1]. Like any extraordinary character who has changed a major field of science, the story of his life is now difficult to separate from le