Professor, cardiac surgeon Vladimir Nikolaevich Ilyin and his contribution to the development of moscow healthcare. (On the 80th anniversary of his birth)

The article describes the contribution of pediatric cardiac surgeon, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Laureate of the Moscow Government Prize and Academician V.I. Burakovsky Prize, Professor V.N. Ilyin to the organization and development of pediatric cardiac surgery in Moscow at the N.F. Filatov Children's Clinical Hospital of the Moscow Department of Health. The archived, printed, visual and verbal sources collected by the interview method, including reports from the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care at the N.F. Filatov State Clinical Hospital, headed by Professor V.N. Ilyin since 2008–2025. The facts of V.N. Ilyin’s performance of the first operations in Russia to correct complex congenital heart defects in newborns and children of the 1st year of life were established, and V.N. Ilyin's priorities in creating a system for providing highly qualified cardiological and cardiac surgical care to children with congenital heart defects and combined pathology have been identified. V.N. Ilyin’s contribution to the creation and organization of the prenatal diagnostic service in Moscow healthcare was assessed.