Sergei Fyodorov (surgeon)

Sergey Petrovich Fedorov, also spelled Fyodorov, was a Russian surgeon and urologist, born in Moscow on 23 January 1869 and died on 15 January 1936. He graduated from the Imperial Moscow University in 1891, took his doctorate of medicine in 1895 and studied in Germany under Curt Schimmelbusch and Leopold Casper. In 1903 he became professor and head of hospital surgery at the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg, a post he held for the rest of his life, and he served as Imperial Court Surgeon from 1913. He founded the Russian Urological Society in 1907 and in 1899 performed the first single-stage suprapubic prostatectomy. He is regarded as the father of Russian urology and the founder of the largest national school of surgery, and several operations and instruments carry his name. He stayed in Soviet Russia after 1917, helped found the surgical journal Novyi khirurgicheskii arkhiv in 1921 and in 1933 became the first Soviet surgeon to receive the Order of Lenin.