Grigory Sarkisovich Grigoryants

Grigory Sarkisovich Grigoryants (10 August 1919 to 3 January 1982) was a Soviet surgeon of Armenian parentage, honoured as Doctor Emeritus of the Uzbek SSR and best known for developing surgical services in the Namangan Region. Born in Martuni, he grew up in Namangan and graduated from the Samarkand Medical Institute in December 1941. During the Second World War he ran the regional health department and an evacuation hospital, and began surgical training in 1942 under the Moscow surgeon Xenia Kisselyova. After the war he became head surgeon of the Namangan regional hospital and built a new surgical department modelled on leading hospitals. He designed an operative technique for closing a femoral hernia defect, a musculo-aponeurotic suture of the abdominal wall and a bromite solution for post-surgical sedation, and he mentored younger surgeons of Uzbekistan.