In memory of the outstanding Soviet surgeons-innovators N.V. Antelava and N. I. Kukudzhanov (to the 50th anniversary of the death of scientists)

The article presents the main milestones of scientific and practical activity of outstanding Soviet surgeons Nikolai vardenovich antelava (1893-1970) and Nikolai Ivanovich Kukudzhanov (1896 - 1970). Little-known facts from the life of scientists are noted. It is shown that From 1925 to 1935, N.V. Antelava was in charge of the Sukhumi city hospital. During the great Patriotic war (1941-1945), he worked in a number of evacuation hospitals in Tbilisi. From 1949 to 1957-chief surgeon of the Ministry of health of the Georgian SSR. It is emphasized That N.V. Antelava is a pioneer of thoracic surgery in Georgia. On his initiative, surgical departments were organized in a number of tuberculosis sanatoriums. In Tbilisi, he created the center for thoracic surgery - a research laboratory for thoracic surgery. In the clinic run By N.V. Antelava, for the first time in Georgia, operations were performed under hypothermia, on a “ dry “ heart, for congenital and acquired defects. N.V. Antelava is the author of more than 200 scientific papers on various issues of General and thoracic surgery, including 13 monographs. It is noted that the monograph “surgery of the lungs and pleura” was awarded the S.P. Fedorov prize (1938).Professor N. I. Kukudzhanov was an outstanding surgeon, Clinician, scientist and practitioner. It is noted that in 1939 - 1962 he was the chief doctor of the Transcaucasian military district. From 1962 to the end of his life, N.I. Kukudzhanov was a scientific adviser at the Tbilisi military hospital and simultaneously from 1945 to 1970. - head of the military surgical Department of the Tbilisi Institute of advanced medical training (TGIDU). It is emphasized that in 1969 the monograph “Inguinal hernias” was published, which is still a fundamental work written By N.I. Kukudzhanov on the basis of many years of experience.