Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (; — ) was a

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surgeon and physiologist of Moldavian origin. He was born near the town of

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, which is now in

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. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in

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, and Moscow. He was a founder of the «Clinical Town» at Devichye Pole. In 1870, on the recommendation of Pirogov, another prominent Russian surgeon, Sklifosovsky was invited to head the department of surgery at Kyiv University. However, he did not stay in Kyiv for long: soon he went to war again, this time to the theater of the

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. About 10,000 wounded passed through Sklifosovskyi. The doctors and nurses, among whom was the surgeon's wife Sofya Oleksandrivna, supported Nikolai Vasylievich's strength by occasionally pouring a few sips of wine into his mouth between separate operations.

Legacy

Nikolai Sklifosovsky 2012 stamp of Transnistria2

The N. V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, often nicknamed as ''Sklif'', has borne his name since 1923. In 2001 the Central Bank of Transnistria arranged for the minting of a silver coin featuring this native of today's

, as part of a series of commemorative coins honoring '' The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie''. File:Памятник Николаю Склифосовскому в Москве.jpg, Monument to N.V. Sklifosovsky in Moscow File:Могила М.В.Скліфосовського, Яківці.jpg, Grave of N. V. Sklifosovsky (

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, Yakovtsy)

References

1836 births 1904 deaths People from Dubăsari People from Kherson Governorate Surgeons from the Russian Empire Physiologists from the Russian Empire Inventors from the Russian Empire 19th-century physicians from the Russian Empire Academic staff of Imperial Moscow University Imperial Moscow University alumni {{Russia-med-bio-stub