Academician Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky (1930–2022) (on the 95th anniversary of his birth)

An outstanding surgeon, scientist, teacher and organizer of healthcare, the founder of one of the largest scientific and practical schools of vascular surgeons and angiologists in the USSR and Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (1997) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (2013), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1975), the Russian Federation State Prize (2002), the Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology (2004), the A. N. Bakulev Prize (2001), president of the Russian Society of Angiologists and Vascular Surgeons (until 2019), president of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) (2000), Doctor of Medical Sciences (1967), Professor (1968) Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky was born on November 21, 1930 in Minsk into a family of doctors. In 1953, he graduated from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute named after N. I. Pirogov. In 1958, he defended his candidate’s dissertation «On the issue of intrathoracic anesthesia during heart surgery». In 1961 – senior research fellow in the vascular surgery department, and from 1964 to 1983 – head of the department of surgery of the great vessels of the A. N. Bakulev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. In 1967, he defended his doctoral dissertation «Surgical treatment of coarctation of the aorta» and in 1968, he received the academic title of Professor. In 1983, A. V. Pokrovsky transferred to work at the A. V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences as the head of the largest vascular surgery department in the country, and in 1986, he was elected by competition as the head of the department of clinical angiology and vascular surgery at the Central Order of Lenin Institute for Advanced Medical Studies (now the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education). In 1997, Anatoly Vladimirovich was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Academician A. V. Pokrovsky is rightfully considered one of the founders of the Soviet school of vascular surgeons and angiologists. Under his supervision, 167 dissertations were defended (56 doctoral and 111 candidate dissertations). He was the author and co-author of more than 720 scientific and practical works, including 16 monographs and manuals. In 1992, Anatoly Vladimirovich created the Russian Society of Angiologists and Vascular Surgeons, of which he was the permanent president until the end of his life. A. V. Pokrovsky became widely known abroad. He was elected an honorary member of the American Society for Vascular Surgery, a member of scientific societies in Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria. Anatoly Vladimirovich was a member of the International Association for Cardiovascular Surgery, the World Society of Angiology. For the first time in the history of our country, in 2000, Academician A. V. Pokrovsky was elected President of the European Society for Vascular Surgery. For many years, he was a member of the editorial board of the journals Cardiology, Surgery, Cardiovascular World Report, and European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Academician Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky died on June 2, 2022, and was buried in Moscow at the Danilovskoye Cemetery.

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7. Pokrovsky A. V. Diseases of the aorta and its branches. Moscow, Medicine, 1979. 324 p. (In Russ.).

8. Pokrovsky A. V. Clinical angiology. Moscow, Medicine, 1979. 368 p. (In Russ.).

9. Pokrovsky A. V., Spiridonov A. A., Kazanchyan P. O., Karimov Sh. I. Chronic occlusive diseases of the abdominal aorta and its branches. Tashkent, Medicine, 1982. 319 p. (In Russ.).

10. Pokrovsky A. V., Ermolyuk R. S., Apsatarov E. A. Aneurysms of the abdominal aorta: Clinic and diagnostics. Alma-Ata: Science, 1978. 155 p. (In Russ.).