Uglov Fedor Grigorievich: biography, photo

Among the long-lived Russians, Fyodor Grigorevich Uglov occupies a special place. This man not only managed to reach 103 years of age, but also left a huge mark in the development of domestic medicine. A surgeon from God, a talented publicist, an indefatigable fighter for a healthy lifestyle ... He saved people not only with a scalpel, but also with a curative sharp word in different life situations.

On the achievements of Academician Uglov

Before proceeding to the story about the life of Fedor Grigorievich, one should list his main achievements so that the reader understands about the personality of what scale he is talking about.

Academician Fyodor Uglov, who left on the hundred and fourth year of his life, in addition to his membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences, was also a member of the Writers' Union and many scientific societies, both Soviet (and later Russian) and international. In the State Orthodox Fund he held the post of president, and the staff of the International Slavic Academy entrusted him with the post of vice-president. In addition, Uglov published the journal "Herald of Surgery".

But most brightly, of course, he showed himself as a practicing doctor. He was appreciated at home and abroad, calling the engine of Russian surgery and comparing with pioneers in the field of space exploration.

Surgeon Fedor Uglov was a pioneer in performing complex operations on the heart, esophagus, lungs and other organs. It is he who owns the invention of an artificial heart valve. He personally tried and made many effective surgical techniques available to medicine.

This man was told that he was born with a scalpel in his hands. Uglov possessed unique surgical technique, and many luminaries of world medicine after the Russian operations performed applauded him standing up.

Uglov Fedor Grigorievich: biography

He was born on October 5 (September 22, old style) in 1904 in a small village of Chuguevo, belonging to the Irkutsk province, in the family of ordinary peasants Grigory Gavrilovich and Anastas Nikolayevna Uglovykh. The child of the surgeon passed in the countryside, in very modest, almost Spartan conditions. Dad and his mother had six children, and the family could not boast of prosperity.

And yet the parents managed to educate five of their six offspring. After the end of the Cyrene Decade, Angry Fedor decides to study further. Having learned about this decision of the son, the father gives him money for the road to Irkutsk and says that he can not help with anything else. Not now, not later. A talented and stubborn guy had to do everything himself. He started from scratch.

Higher education

In Irkutsk, Uglov enters the Faculty of Medicine in East Siberian University without any problems. He studies with ecstasy and great diligence, apparently already feeling his purpose in the chosen sphere.

During the student days, a story happened to the boy, with the example of which he was convinced that there is no thin without good. In 1924, being in his sophomore year, Uglov Fedor visited Leningrad and after a trip very seriously fell ill. His body fought at once with two types of typhus - swollen and abdominal. The disease gave complications, sepsis began. For a long time a twenty-year-old boy was hanging over an abyss. If it were not for the help of a classmate who undertook to take care of him, despite the existing young child, Uglov would hardly have been lucky to survive.

Subsequently, this kind girl became the wife of Fyodor, and he successfully graduated from the university - it's true, not in Irkutsk, but in Saratov, where he transferred after the illness. He was advised to change his place of residence by doctors, since the health of Corner was damaged by the cold Siberian climate.

The first steps in medicine

The future is shining Russian medicine Fedor Uglov, whose biography began in a remote village, the stars from the sky did not suffice and to his heights went slowly, achieving success by hard work.

After receiving a diploma in the twenty-ninth year, he worked as a simple district doctor in the countryside. First in the Lower Volga region, then moved to Abkhazia.

Two years later, Uglov managed to get a place in the Leningrad Hospital. Mechnikov, and after the internship ended, he fell into the interdistrict hospital of the water workers of the city of Kirensk, where he was the chief doctor, and then the head of the surgical department.

Before the general recognition of the doctor was still far away, although his personality already then attracted the attention of colleagues. Which, however, more often treated the work of the young surgeon skeptically and did not really trust his talents.

Career development

Not wishing to dwell on what has been achieved and confine himself to the role of a simple hospital worker, Uglov Fedor in 1937 becomes a graduate student of the Leningrad Medical Institute for the Improvement of Doctors and actively works on scientific articles. The first topics were complications in typhoid fever and the development of surgery in the province - everything that was close and very familiar. As a topic for the Ph.D. thesis he chose one of the types of tumors, and for the doctor's dissertation he chose a lung resection.

At the institute Fyodor Grigoryevich worked first as an assistant, and then as an assistant professor in the department of surgery. And all this - against the backdrop of military events.

Work during the war

It should be noted that Fedor Uglov managed to visit the front during the Soviet-Finnish campaign, serving as a senior surgeon of the medical battalion from the 39th to the 40th year. And when the Great Patriotic War broke out, a talented doctor was not drafted into the army, apparently considering his role in the rear more important. Uglov operated in one of the Leningrad hospitals and stubbornly survived the fascist blockade.

In his own words, he did not die of hunger only because of his luck. For some time he replaced the head of the hospital and was obliged to try food, which fed the sick - and survived.

900 blockade days left an indelible mark in the memory of Corner. He often recalled how they operated under bombing, without heating and in almost total darkness. But despite everything, it was possible to save people.

1st Leningrad Medical University

Most of the working life of Fedor Grigorievich was held in the walls of the First Leningrad Medical Institute, where he worked from 1950 to 1990, heading the Department of Hospital Surgery.

During this period, Fyodor Grigoryevich Uglov created his surgical school, having brought up a whole galaxy of first-class specialists. In parallel with studies with students, he continues to actively practice, performing unique operations.

Long-Liver

Uglov Fedor Grigorievich, whose biography began at the dawn of the twentieth century, managed to capture the 21st century as well, having lived a full 103 years and several months. At the same time, until the last days he kept a bright mind, cheerfulness of spirit and was physically active. After retiring, he read a lot (especially historical literature), worked in the garden, liked to have picnics outdoors and ski. Constantly tempered the body, and the soul held in the tone of sincere faith in God.

The youngest child of the academician was born when he was already sixty-six years old. And being a century old, Uglov claimed that he still retains sexual activity and lives a regular sex life. And all thanks to the fact that even in his youth, he limited the number of sexual acts one or two times a week.

He was even brought to the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon. In the presence of witnesses, the corners performed an operation at the age of one hundred.

Recommendations from Fedor Uglova

An outstanding surgeon was often asked how he managed to live so much, because behind him were revolutions, wars, blockade, famine ... And he willingly shared his secrets, strongly recommending them to all applicants for longevity:

• To love their work;
• To devote time not only to mental, but also to physical labor;
• To be devoted to the Motherland;
• Love their loved ones and bear responsibility for them;
• Do not overeat and do not allow extra pounds;
• On time to visit doctors and monitor their health;
• Be cautious on the road while driving;
• To love your body;
• Live according to the regime - work and rest in moderation;
• Do not listen to destructive music (rock);
• Do not drink or smoke, do not use drugs;
• Constantly do good!

Fedor Uglov, whose photo is presented in this article, even at the finish of life did not look decrepit. And his soul also retained youth. Therefore, the advice of an outstanding figure in medicine deserves the closest attention.

Fight for a healthy lifestyle

Surgeon Uglov Fyodor Grigorievich was engaged not only in healing flesh. Being a talented writer and publicist, he wrote hundreds of articles in which he tried to treat people with the help of a kind consolatory word.

In addition to exploits in the operating room, this man is also famous for his active struggle for a healthy lifestyle. He constantly spoke and wrote about the harmful effects of nicotine, alcohol and drugs on the body, giving convincing arguments and facts. He believed that a person should not afford a single cigarette, not a single shot of vodka, imposing a severe taboo on such things. Compromises in this issue Uglov categorically did not allow.

The struggle against total drunkenness also affected children. Uglov urged to stop giving babies a kefir containing a certain percentage of alcohol and from an early age involving kids into alcohol dependence. The campaign in mass media on this issue has launched a large-scale campaign.

From his pen came a lot of journalistic works devoted to a healthy lifestyle. The most famous of them: "Suicide", "Truth and lies about drugs", "In captivity of illusions", "Trap for Russia", etc.

By the way, Fedor Grigorievich was convinced that before the revolution Russians were not subject to drunkenness. Allegedly, they were spoiled by the Jews in order to destroy the Russian nation. At the same time the doctor did not consider himself an anti-Semite.

A little about the family

As noted above, Fyodor Uglov first married in his early youth on his classmate, who left him after typhus. But this marriage did not become his only.

The second wife of Uglov - Emilia Viktorovna Streltsova was younger than him for thirty-two years. From two marriages Fedor Grigorievich has daughters Tatyana and Elena and son Gregory.

At the time of death, the outstanding surgeon had already nine grandchildren, as many great-grandchildren and even two great-great-grandsons! And he died of a heart attack on June twenty-second, 2008. His remains rest on the Nikolsky cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.