Schools of Kazan surgeons and their importance for the development of national surgery

Kazan has long been one of the centers of surgical culture, and it is not without reason that Academician H. N. Burdenko said in his speech in 1940 at the meeting devoted to the 175th anniversary of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute: "The Kazan and Kharkov centers (surgical) have created interesting and original concepts, animating the attention of scientific and practical surgeons and obliging them to test and apply their suggestions." The development of surgical schools in Kazan is connected with the names of V.I. Razumovsky (1857-1935) and A.V. Vishnevsky (1874-1948) - the natives of Kazan University.