Scientific heritage of professor S.P. Fedorov (1869–1936) (150 anniversary of a scientist birthday)

In this paper, important scientific achievements of S.P. Fedorov as a surgeon and organizer of health care were noted. Little-known facts from the life of the Professor S.P. Fedorov were covered. S.P. Fedorov is the author of over 120 scientific works. He is rightly called the father of russian bile duct surgery. The main directions of scientific research S.P. Fedorov was urinary and biliary tract surgery. He summarized extensive experience in widely known monographs and guides. An important merit of S.P. Fedorov was the organization of the surgical journal “New Surgical Archive”. He was the editor of the first edition of “Big medical encyclopedia”, edited the multivolume “Manual of Practical Surgery”. He created a large domestic surgical school, from which dozens of specialists, heads of surgical departments of medical universities in various cities of the USSR, graduated.