Viktor Ivanovich Bulynin - Professor, Chairman of the Voronezh Regional Society of Surgeons, Honorary Citizen of Voronezh. To the 90th of birthday
Authors: Glukhov Alexander Anatolievich , Andreev Alexander Alekseevich , Ostroushko Anton Petrovich 
Published: May 2023

Viktor Ivanovich Bulynin was born on October 12, 1932 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, into a family of doctors. After graduation, he entered the Kuban Medical Institute. Red Army, and two years later, in connection with the move of the family, transferred to the Stavropol Medical Institute. After graduating from the medical faculty of a medical university in 1957, he worked as the head of the surgical department of the Gofitsky district hospital of the Stavropol Territory. At this time, Viktor Ivanovich performed various surgical interventions, including cholecyst-, nephrectomy and gastric resection. Information about his work was also reflected in regional newspapers, which wrote about his reimplantation to a collective farmer who was torn off during agricultural work. In 1959, on the advice of his surgeon father, he travels to Moscow to present the vasoconstrictor he created. After meeting with academician A.A. Vishnevsky, he was admitted "to the workplace" to the Department of Vascular Surgery, and in 1960 he was enrolled in the clinical residency of the Institute of Surgery named after A.V. Vishnevsky Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. The study of the effectiveness of the use of the vasoconstrictor he developed allowed V.I. Bulynin in 1963 to defend, under the guidance of professors N.K. Galankin and I.I. Khozhainov, his dissertation work for the degree of candidate of medical sciences on the topic: "Circular aortic suture with a minimum period of cessation of blood flow." Further, for family reasons, unable to accept the offer of Academician A.A. Vishnevsky to stay to work at the Institute of Surgery. A.V. Vishnevsky Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Viktor Ivanovich goes to Karaganda, where he works as an assistant (1962-1964), and then as an assistant professor at the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Medical Institute (1964-1971). In 1971, V.I. Bulynin defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Clinical forms of pulmonary hypertension in patients with mitral stenosis." The scientific consultants during this study were well-known professors I.K. Galankin, L.D. Krymsky and F.L. Hectin. In the same year, he was elected head of the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Karaganda Medical Institute (1971-1975), and a year later he was awarded the title of professor. At this time, he operates a lot, including performing surgical interventions on the heart, blood vessels, introducing endovascular interventions such as probing the cavities of the heart and angiocardiography. The first students of Viktor Ivanovich were subsequently known doctors: prof. KGMI D.I. Bogomolov, personal doctor of the President of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayeva S.E. Tokpanov, professor of the Department of General Surgery of Moscow Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov A.N. Afanasyev and others. At the same time, Viktor Ivanovich also works as dean of the medical faculty of the Karaganda Medical Institute. In 1975, V.I. Bulynin was elected head of the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Voronezh Medical University. In 1976, the department under his leadership moved to the newly commissioned building of the largest health care institution in the Chernozem region - the Voronezh Regional Clinical Hospital. On the basis of the hospital there were 19 diagnostic and auxiliary, 34 hospital units, including departments of cardio-, gastro-, endosurgery, thoracic and vascular surgery, neurotraumatological, orthopedic, coloproctological and burn. Later, endoscopic, X-ray surgical and oncourological departments were opened. The hospital had a two thousandth bed fund, which together made it possible to provide qualified medical care to about thirty thousand patients annually. During this period, Viktor Ivanovich introduces into clinical practice about sixty new surgical interventions for Voronezh and the Voronezh region.For the first time in the region, he carried out such cardiac surgery as radical corrections of complex congenital defects and post-traumatic damage to intracardiac structures, multi-valve prosthetics, removal of heart tumors, coronary artery bypass grafting, including in conditions of artificial circulation. In 1976, Viktor Ivanovich performed operations on the "open heart" for the first time in Voronezh. He performed pancreatoduodenal resection in pancreatic cancer for the first time in the region; formation of porto-caval anastomoses in vasorenal hypertension; resections of the thoracic and abdominal aorta; numerous operations on the esophagus, bronchi, adrenal glands, etc. The organization of transplantation and microsurgical care, the manufacture of xenografts for cardiac surgery is associated with the name of Viktor Ivanovich. Viktor Ivanovich was a versatile person, his friends were sculptor I.P. Dikunov, writer G.N. Troepolsky, engineers, Lenin Prize laureates I.I. Poyarkov and G.V. Sukhodolsky, composer M.I. Nosarev, architect P.P. Danilenko, editor R.A. Khodeev, professor-chemist E.G. Goncharov and many others. Communication with these creative people, high-level professionals allowed him to keep up with the times, to create innovative developments at the "junction of specialties." V.I. Bulynin published more than 300 publications, including such fundamental monographs as "Clinical forms of mitral stenosis" (1977), "Wound of the heart" (1989), "Liver resection" (1995), "Wound treatment" (1998), "Treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia" (1998). He is the author of more than 30 patents of the Russian Federation, including those devoted to methods of treating lung abscesses, endoscopic bleeding arrest, the use of hydropressive flows, HBO and ozone therapy, a device for blood reinfusion, etc. He prepared 26 candidates and 4 doctors of medical sciences, he is the founder of cardiovascular, thoracic and abdominal surgical schools, his pupils head key posts in practical health care and medical education. For fruitful work, Viktor Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981) and various medals. In 1994, Professor V.I. Bulynin was elected Honorary Citizen of Voronezh, and in 1995 he was awarded the title - Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. Viktor Ivanovich was a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Society of Surgeons, chairman of the Regional Scientific and Practical Society of Surgeons, a member of the International Society of Surgeons, Associations of European and Hepato-Pancreatic Surgeons. He was a member of the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia, dissertation councils of Voronezh and Rostov medical universities, the editorial board of the Great Medical Encyclopedia, and the editorial board of the scientific and practical journal Breast and Cardiovascular Surgery. In 1997, the Cambridge Society "International Biographical Center" named after V.I. Bulynin was included in the encyclopedia of famous doctors "Who is Who." On March 25, 1998, Viktor Ivanovich suddenly died and was buried at the Kominternovsky cemetery in Voronezh. His name is immortalized in the name of the street of the city of Voronezh, his bust is installed in the administrative building of the Voronezh Regional Hospital. In our memory, Viktor Ivanovich remains a charming, intelligent, athletic, cheerful and wise person, a wonderful professional who gave all his strength to people and his beloved profession.