Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko (11 November 1946) was a Russian surgeon, the founder of the Russian neurosurgery. He was a Head surgeon of the Red Army (1937-1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, (1944-1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), colonel-general of medicine, Stalin Prize-winner (1941). He was a participant of the Russo-Japanese, First World, … Wikipedia
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