Galina Shatalova

Galina Sergeyevna Shatalova (13 October 1916 to 14 December 2011) was a Russian neurosurgeon and military surgeon, born in Ashgabat, who later became a teacher of a healthy lifestyle and the author of the System of Natural Health. She studied at the Rostov Medical Institute and stayed on in the residency of its surgical clinic. Drafted in 1939 when fighting broke out on the Karelian Isthmus, she served as a military surgeon and hospital department head through the whole of the Second World War. After the war she worked as a neurosurgeon at the Central Institute of Neurosurgery of the USSR Academy of Sciences, treating many veterans with severe head wounds; her repair of defects in the dura mater is credited with prolonging the lives of thousands of them. She received the Burdenko Prize in 1951. In the 1960s she headed the cosmonaut selection and training sector at the Institute of Space Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences. She organised and took part in demanding multi-day hiking expeditions in the Karakum, Altai, Tien Shan and Pamir, and wrote many books and articles on nutrition and health, among them We Eat Ourselves to Death, Healing Nutrition and Philosophy of Health. She was married to Major General and Professor Alexander Shatalov and had three children.

Galina Sergeyevna Shatalova (13 October 1916 to 14 December 2011) was a Russian neurosurgeon and military surgeon, born in Ashgabat, who later became a teacher of a healthy lifestyle and the author of the System of Natural Health. She studied at the Rostov Medical Institute and stayed on in the residency of its surgical clinic. Drafted in 1939 when fighting broke out on the Karelian Isthmus, she served as a military surgeon and hospital department head through the whole of the Second World War. After the war she worked as a neurosurgeon at the Central Institute of Neurosurgery of the USSR Academy of Sciences, treating many veterans with severe head wounds; her repair of defects in the dura mater is credited with prolonging the lives of thousands of them. She received the Burdenko Prize in 1951. In the 1960s she headed the cosmonaut selection and training sector at the Institute of Space Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences. She organised and took part in demanding multi-day hiking expeditions in the Karakum, Altai, Tien Shan and Pamir, and wrote many books and articles on nutrition and health, among them We Eat Ourselves to Death, Healing Nutrition and Philosophy of Health. She was married to Major General and Professor Alexander Shatalov and had three children. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/