Sergey Petrovich FEDOROV - founder of the largest Russian surgical school, "father of Russian urology» (to the 150th of birthday)
Authors: Andreev Alexander Alexeevich , Ostroushko Anton Petrovich 
Published: October 2019

Sergey Petrovich Fedorov was born in Moscow in 1869. In 1886 he graduated with honors from the gymnasium, and in 1891 - the medical faculty of Moscow University. In 1892, he was the first in Russia to manufacture and put into practice cholera and tetanus antitoxins, in 1893 - tetanus toxoid serum. In 1895, he defended his doctoral dissertation and was appointed as an assistant, and in 1896 - as a privat-docent of the faculty surgical clinic of Moscow University. In 1899 S.P. For the first time, Fedorov performed a single-step trans-vesicular prostatectomy, in 1901 a laparotomy for purulent peritonitis, in 1902 a gastrectomy with resection of the esophagus, resection of the colon. From 1903 to 1936, Sergei Petrovich headed the department of the hospital surgical clinic of the Military Medical Academy. In 1907, on his initiative, the Russian Urological Society was organized in Russia, the chairman of which he was elected (now bearing his name), the Urological Institute was established at the Military Medical Academy. In 1909 S.P. For the first time in the world, Fedorov performed the operation under intravenous hedonal anesthesia, which was the beginning of the widespread use of inhalation anesthesia. In 1909 he was awarded the title of honorary life-surgeon, and at the end of 1912 he was confirmed as a life-surgeon of the imperial family, which he combined with work in the Military Medical Academy. At this time, he wrote "Atlas of Cystoscopy and Rectoscopy" (1911), the monograph "Gallstones and surgery of the biliary tract" (1918). May 2, 1920 S.P. Fedorov was detained and put in prison. September 9, 1920, he was sentenced to a suspended five-year prison term. September 14, 1921 S.P. Fedorov was arrested again and at the end of November under escort sent to Moscow for a free settlement. In 1921 S.P. Fedorov took part in the creation of the first Soviet surgical journal "New Surgical Archive". From 1926 to 1933, he headed the Institute of Surgical Neuropathology (now the Leningrad Research Neurosurgical Institute named after A.L. Polenov, M3 of the RSFSR). S.P. Fedorov proposed new methods and modifications of operations on the nervous system, kidneys, intestines, biliary tract, new tools for their implementation. Under his leadership, the development of blood transfusion problems began for the first time in the USSR. He created the largest surgical school (N.N. Elansky, I.S. Kolesnikov, P.A. Kupriyanov, V.N. Shamov, etc.). In 1928, S. P. Fedorov was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. In 1933, he was the first of the surgeons to be awarded the Order of Lenin.Died S.P. Fedorov in Leningrad in 1936 and was buried at the Communist site (now the Cossack cemetery) of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. He has published over 120 scientific papers, including 11 manuals and monographs. Memorial plaque in memory of SP Fedorov installed on the building of the Faculty Surgery Clinic of the Military Medical Academy. CM. Kirov.