DEPARTMENT OF OPERATIVE SURGERY AND TOPOGRAPHIC ANATOMY OF THE SECHENOV FIRST MOSCOW STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (SECHENOV UNIVERSITY)- 150TH ANNIVERSARY

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The Department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy of the medical faculty of Moscow University was established in 1868. The First head of this Department was Alexander Petrovich Rascvetov (1825-1902). In 1885, Alexander A. Bobrov (1850-1904) was elected as a head of the Department - an outstanding surveyor and surgeon, an active follower of N. I. Pirogov. A. A. Bobrov made a new program of teaching of operative surgery and topographic anatomy. For the first time topographic anatomy was presented as a whole course. A. A. Bobrov left a deep mark in the domestic and world surgery as a Topographer, Experimenter and Clinician. In 1923-1927 the Department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy was headed by Professor Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (1876- 1946). In 1947, head of the Department was elected a student of N. N. Burdenko Professor Vladimir Kovanov (1909-1994). Under his leadership, studies have been conducted ended the protection of the 37 doctoral and 85 master’s theses. A huge role in the formation of the scientific school V. V. Kovanov played scientific student circle and postgraduate students. The traditions of the scientific student circle have been preserved. For example, the basis of the student team, successfully organizing and performing at the Moscow (all-Russian) Olympiade named after academician M. I. Perelman are students-members of the Department. From 1988 to 2013 head of the Department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy of the I. M. Sechenov First MSMU was a student of V. V. Kovanov, Professor, corresponding member of RAS Anatoly V. Nikolaev. From 2013 to the present time the Department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy of the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, is headed by doctor of medical Sciences, Professor Sergey S. Dydykin.