Questions of the organization of emergency medical care in the scientific works of professor Yu.Yu. Janelidze: historical aspects. To the 90th anniversary of the founding of the institute in Leningrad (1932-2022)

The main milestones of the life and work of Yu.Yu. Janelidze are presented. The merits of a prominent Russian surgeon, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, professor Yu.Yu. Janelidze, in practical medicine are analyzed. His contribution to the organization of emergency medical care in Leningrad and in the Soviet Union as a whole was noted. The little-known facts from the scientist's life are highlighted. It is shown that in 1932, on the basis of the E.P. Pervukhin Hospital, a scientific and practical institute of emergency medicine was established. The initiator of its creation, Yu.Yu. Janelidze, was approved by the scientific director of the Institute. His great merit was that the Institute became a center of emergency surgery. Yu.Yu. Janelidze sought to introduce the most advanced organizational forms and the best methods of treatment into medical institutions, thereby having a noticeable positive impact on the work of hospitals and clinics not only in the city of Leningrad. It is impossible to overestimate the role of the scientist in the development of emergency surgery in the USSR in the first half of the XX century.