Academician Andrei Lvovich Polenov (1871–1947) (on the 155th anniversary of his birth)
https://doi.org/10.24884/0042-4625-2026-185-1-16-22
Abstract
An outstanding surgeon, traumatologist and neurosurgeon, scientist, teacher and organizer of healthcare, one of the founders of traumatology and neurosurgery in Russia, creator of the first large scientific and practical school of neurosurgeons in our country, founder and director of the Physiosurgical Institute (1917) and the first director of the State Traumatology Institute (1923) in Petrograd, organizer of the first in our country department of traumatology and orthopedics (1918), the first director of the Leningrad State Research Neurosurgical Institute (1938), Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1945), Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1934), laureate of the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree (1946), Doctor of Medical Sciences (1901), Professor (1914). Andrei Lvovich Polenov was born on April 7 (April 19, new style), 1871, in Moscow to a noble family of the Polenov family, well known in Russia. In 1896, he graduated from the Military Medical Academy and served as a military doctor in Orel, then at the Kronstadt Naval Hospital. In 1901, he defended his doctoral dissertation «Sympathectomy. Its Effect on Experimental Epilepsy in Animals» at the Military Medical Academy. In 1917, A. L. Polenov organized the Physiosurgical Institute for the comprehensive treatment of war invalids and those injured in peacetime. In 1923, he was appointed director of the newly established State Traumatology Institute and published the first traumatology manual in the country. In 1935, he headed the first full-time neurosurgery department in Russia at the Leningrad State Neurosurgical Research Institute. In 1938, he was appointed director of the new Neurosurgical Institute. A.L. Polenov was the author and co-author of more than 150 scientific and practical works, including 12 monographs and manuals. He created the first school of neurosurgeons in our country and is considered the founder of neurosurgery in Russia. Academician A. L. Polenov died on July 19, 1947, in Leningrad and was buried at the Bolsheokhtinskoe Cemetery. That same year, the Leningrad State Neurosurgical Research Institute was named after A. L. Polenov.
About the Authors
Al. A. Kurygin
Military Medical Academy
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Kurygin Aleksandr A., Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Faculty Surgery named after S. P. Fedorov
6, Academica Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg
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V. S. Dovganyuk
Military Medical Academy
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Dovganyuk Vitaly S., Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Faculty Surgery named after S. P. Fedorov
6, Academica Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg
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V. V. Semenov
Military Medical Academy
Russian Federation
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Semenov Valery V., Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Service, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Faculty Surgery named after S. P. Fedorov
6, Academica Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg, 194044
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Kurygin A.A., Dovganyuk V.S., Semenov V.V. Academician Andrei Lvovich Polenov (1871–1947) (on the 155th anniversary of his birth). Grekov's Bulletin of Surgery. 2026;185(1):16-22. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24884/0042-4625-2026-185-1-16-22
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