Nikolay Burdenko

Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, born in 1876 and died in 1946, and is known as the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He served as Surgeon-General of the Red Army from 1937 until 1946, became an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1939, and was an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR from 1944 to 1946. He held the rank of Colonel General of medical services, was named a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1943 and won a Stalin Prize in 1941. He was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War, the Winter War and the German-Soviet War.