Nikolay Burdenko

Nikolay Burdenko

Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Никола́й Ни́лович Бурде́нко; 22 May 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of the 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, Stalin Prize winner (1941). He was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese, First World, Winter and the German-Soviet War.