Professor Pavel Nikolaevich Napalkov (1900-1988) (on the 120th anniversary of the birthday)

Abstract

Professor Pavel Nikolaevich Napalkov was born in Moscow on September 30 (October 13), 1900. After graduating from secondary education, Pavel Nikolaevich entered the medical faculty of Don University, where he chose surgery as his future specialty. In 1930, by the invitation of Professor V. A. Oppel, P. N. Napalkov moved to Leningrad, where he began working in the hospital named after I. I. Mechnikov (now Peter the Great). During World War II, Pavel Nikolaevich was in the ranks of the Red Army. P. N. Napalkov summarized the experience of his work in the chapters «Putrid Infection» and «Peritonitis» in the fundamental multi-volume publication «Experience of Soviet Medicine in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945». After demobilization, Professor P. N. Napalkov was elected head of the Department of Faculty Surgery of the 2nd Leningrad Medical Institute and headed the department for 28 years - until 1974. Many works, including a dissertation and a monograph, were devoted to ventral hernias. Pavel Nikolaevich was the author and co-author of more than 400 scientific papers and 14 monographs on various sections of specialty surgery, military surgery, traumatology, anesthesiology, and health care organization. Professor P. N. Napalkov died on May 18, 1988 and was buried near Leningrad in the settlement Pesochny.