Socio-demographic portrait of a Russian surgeon

The article contains the result of the analysis of currently available publications devoted to the evaluation of quantitative, age, and gender parameters of the group of professional surgeons in our country. Surgeons were found to represent the second largest group of doctors after therapists. Mean age of the surgeons varies between 25 and 49 years, the majority of them are males. We revealed that social conditions and urban environment stipulate high labor intensity as well as sustainable competition among the professionals. Besides, this environment also determines individual strategies for professionalization in the studied group.