THE LIFE AND BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY PROFESSOR V.F. VOYNO-YASENETSKY, THE ARCHBISHOP AND SURGEON (TO THE HUNDRED FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY: 1877-1961)

V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky, after receiving diploma of physician, improved in the clinic of P.I. Diakov, and in the Institute of topographic anatomy and operative surgery at F.A. Rein. In 1905-1914 V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky worked as Zemstvo physician in hospitals of the Simbirsk, Kursk and Vladimir gubernias and during the First world War he was a surgeon and chief physician of infirmary for the wounded. In 1915 V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky published in St. Petersburg the book «The regional anesthesia» with one's own illustrations. In 1919 he defended the doctoral dissertation about regional anesthesia in the Moscow University. The dissertation was awarded by the Warsaw University. In 1917-1930 he worked as a surgeon of municipal hospital in Tashkent and from March 1917 he became the chief physician. From 1920 V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky is a professor of the Chair of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery in the Turkestan University. His input into practical surgery is analyzed. The operation of removal of sacroiliac symphysis with rear part of wing of ilium affected by purulent process belongs to him (resection of pelvis according Voyno-Yasenetsky). The original mode of closure of wound positioned at periphery of diaphragm also belong to him (Voyno-Yasenetsky mode ). He proposed original mode of mobilization of spleen and ligation of vessels under splenectomy (Voyno-Yasenetsky mode). V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky described such important for surgeons topographic anatomic reference points as a projection of sciatic nerve on skin of a rear surface of thigh (Voyno-Yasenetsky line) and area of outlet of sciatic nerve from under gluteal fold (Voyno-Yasenetsky point). In 1946, V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky was honored with the Stalin Award Degree I for books «The essays of contaminated surgery» (1943) and «The late resections under infected gunshot wounds of joints» (1944).