Mykola Mikhailovich Amosov is a Ukrainian scientist, cardiac surgeon, father of Ukrainian biocybernetics, writer and public figure.
Place of Birth, Education
He was born on December 6, 1913 in the village of Olkhovo. The mother of the future scientist worked as a midwife in a village near the city of Cherepovets, and his father unexpectedly left the family after returning from the front.
Amosov received his secondary education at a school in Cherepovets. Later, he studied at the local mechanical college.
In 1935, he entered the Arkhangelsk Medical Institute, which he later graduated with honors. At the same time, he was educated at the correspondence industrial institute, where in 1940 he also received an engineering diploma with honors.
Career
Starting in 1932, Amosov worked in the city of Arkhangelsk as a shift supervisor at a power plant that served the local sawmill.
After completing his studies, he worked as a surgeon in a hospital in the city of Cherepovets. He participated in the work of the mobilization commission, and later was appointed chief surgeon as part of the Field Mobile Hospital. After that, he worked as a surgeon in Moscow for some time.
In 1952, he moved to Kyiv, where he lived for 49 years. In March 1953, he defended his doctoral dissertation in medicine on lung resections in tuberculosis, after which he headed the department at the Kyiv Medical Institute.
In 1960, he headed the Department of Biocybernetics at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR).
In 1962, he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In the same year, he became a laureate of the Lenin Prize and was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
On January 17, 1963, Amosov performed the first operation in the USSR to prosthetize the mitral valve of the heart.
In 1965, he shared his experience of successful experience in implanting hemispheric valve prostheses in patients with a small left ventricle, in cases where it was impossible to install conventional ball prostheses.
In 1968, Amosov was appointed Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Kyiv Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Thoracic Surgery. In parallel, from 1955 to 1970, he headed the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Institute for the Advancement of Physicians.
In 1969 he became an academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (UAS), and in 1983 he was appointed director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery.
In 1998, the scientist was awarded the Order of Merit of the II degree.
On December 12, 2002, at the age of 90, Amosov died of a heart attack. He was buried at the Baikove cemetery in Kyiv.
Political Activities
Amosov was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 6th – 9th convocations. He was a member of the Union Council Commission on Health and Social Security.
Personal life
In 1934 he married Galya Soboleva, and in 1944 he married for the second time – with Lydia Denysenko.
Nikolai Amosov: interesting facts
Here are some interesting facts from the life of Amosov:
- He is the author of more than 400 scientific publications, including 19 monographs. Several of them have been reissued in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Bulgaria;
- He is also known as a writer. His stories “Thoughts and Heart”, “Notes from the Future”, “PPG-2266”, “The Book of Happiness and Misfortune” were published both in Ukraine and abroad;
- In the 1960s – early 1970s, he suffered from tuberculosis and was treated in a sanatorium in the city of Stary Krym. After recovery, he organized a pulmonary surgical department in the same sanatorium.
