Nikolay Burdenko

Nikolay Burdenko
Burdenko in 1937
Born	(1876-06-03)3 June 1876[1] Kamenka village, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
Died	11 November 1946(1946-11-11) (aged 70)[1] Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Imperial University of Yuryev
Known for	Neurosurgery, field surgery
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine, surgery, neurosurgery
Institutions	Red Cross Imperial University of Yuryev Moscow University Central Neurosurgical Institute USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Николай Нилович Бурденко; 22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944–1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), Colonel General of medical services, and a Stalin Prize winner (1941). He was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, Winter War and the German-Soviet War.^[1]