A team of surgeons operates on a patient at the All-Union Research and Development Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery of Soviet Ministry of Healthcare, now the |Academician Petrovsky Russian Surgery Research Center.01.06.1977#8938821
Anaesthetists in a pressure chamber preparing a patient for an operation at the National Research Institute of Experimental and Clinical Surgery of the USSR Ministry of Healthcare.01.01.1977#786235
The All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery, affiliated with the Soviet Ministry of Healthcare, now the Academician Petrovsky Russian Surgery Research Center. This photo shows surgeons operating on patients inside pressure chambers.01.11.1976#8928518
The All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery, affiliated with the Soviet Ministry of Healthcare, now the Academician Petrovsky Russian Surgery Research Center. This photo shows surgeons operating on patients inside pressure chambers.01.11.1976#8928517
City Clinical Hospital No. 50 - a multifield medical facility in the Russian capital. Doctor of Medical Sciences, surgeon Irina Parusova, center, performs an operation.01.08.1976#2791980
Fyodor Romashov, Head of the Medical Department of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University (now Peoples' University of Russia), before surgery.10.06.1976#8130731
The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. The eldest son of Famous Latvian artist, woodcarver Uldis Salaks, has become a doctor and works at a rural hospital.01.06.1976#5517549
Chief surgeon of the USSR Civil Defense, Professor of the chair for traumatology-orthopaedics and combined radiation injuries of the Central Order of Lenin Institute of Doctors' Professional Development (present-day Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education) Valentin Polyakov uses an ultrasonic scalpel during an operation.05.04.1976#5519856
Valery Akopyan (1939-1983), PhD in medical sciences, surgeon, founder and director of the USSR's only children's liver surgery center at Moscow's Children's City Hospital No. 2 (now St. Vladimir's Hospital). Valery Akopyan in the operating theater.11.02.1976#5777738
Kiev Research Institute of Urology of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences (now Nephrology Institute of the Ukrainian National Academy of Medical Sciences). A surgeon after an hours-long surgery.20.01.1976#6431778
Kiev Research Institute of Urology of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences (now Nephrology Institute of the Ukrainian National Academy of Medical Sciences). A case conference chaired by Professor Viktor Karpenko, director of the institute and doctor of medical sciences, right, before a surgery.20.01.1976#6431763
Doctors operate on a patient at the Priorov Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, now the Priorov National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics.30.08.1975#5990858
The Moscow scientific research laboratory of experimental and clinical eye surgery (MNILEKKhG). Doctor of medical sciences, professor Svyatoslav Fyodorov during a surgery.01.06.1974#2897218
Operating theater, N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences)01.06.1974#526215
Frontoparietal cerebral tumor removal operation being performed by Gabib Gabibov, Ph.D., of the 6th department, N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences)01.06.1974#526214
Anesthesiologists at work before an operation, N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences)01.06.1974#526213
Operating theater, N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences)01.06.1974#526220
Surgeon Yury Filatov, Ph.D., head of the vascular department, N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences)01.06.1974#526219
N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences)01.06.1974#526218
Gabib Gabibov, Ph.D., of the sixth department performing an operation, N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences). Photo collage.01.06.1974#526217
Director of the A.N. Bakulev Institute of Cardio-Vascular Surgery (now A.N. Bakulev Research Center for Cardio-Vascular Surgery) Vladimir Burakovsky performs an open heart surgery.19.05.1974#5507308
Heart surgery at the Alexander Vishnevsky Surgery Institute (now Alexander Vishnevsky National Medical Surgery Institute).17.10.1973#5668989
Belorussian SSR. Punch press operator Nikolai Symon at work. In his free time, he acts at a folk theater at the Cultural Center of the Minsk Tractor Plant.18.06.1973#8492557
Belorussian SSR. Punch press operator Nikolai Symon at work. In his free time, he acts at a folk theater at the Cultural Center of the Minsk Tractor Plant.18.06.1973#8492555
Belorussian SSR. A folk theater at the Cultural Center of the Minsk Tractor Plant. A scene from War Against War, a play based on Yakub Kolos's book.18.06.1973#8492543
Belorussian SSR. A folk theater at the Cultural Center of the Minsk Tractor Plant. Punch press operator Nikolai Symon in a play based on Yevgeny Shvartz's book.18.06.1973#8492530
Belorussian SSR. Soviet composer Igor Luchenok visits actors of a folk theater at the Cultural Center of the Minsk Tractor Plant.18.06.1973#8492523
Belorussian SSR. A folk theater at the Cultural Center of the Minsk Tractor Plant. Actors in a dressing room before War Against War, a play based on Yakub Kolos's book.18.06.1973#8492504
Center: Yury Morozov, surgeon of the Hospital Surgery Department at the Irkutsk Medical Institute of the USSR Surgery Research Institute (Siberian branch) of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, during a surgery.22.05.1973#5794682
Belarusian SSR. Center: Nikolai Symon, punch press operator at Minsk Tractor Plant's mechanical workshop and actor of the At Dolgy Ford folk theater of the plant's Cultural Center, after his work shift.01.05.1973#5754651
Belarusian SSR. Center: Nikolai Symon, punch press operator at Minsk Tractor Plant's mechanical workshop and actor of the At Dolgy Ford folk theater of the plant's Cultural Center, during a rehearsal.01.05.1973#5754649
Belarusian SSR. Nikolai Symon, punch press operator at Minsk Tractor Plant's mechanical workshop and actor of the At Dolgy Ford folk theater of the plant's Cultural Center.01.05.1973#5754648
Belarusian SSR. Nikolai Symon, punch press operator at Minsk Tractor Plant's mechanical workshop and actor of the At Dolgy Ford folk theater of the plant's Cultural Center.01.05.1973#5754635
Belarusian SSR. From right: Pavel Molchanov and Nikolai Symon during a rehearsal of a stage play at the At Dolgy Ford folk theater of Minsk Tractor Plant's Cultural Center.01.05.1973#5754632
Belarusian SSR. Nikolai Symon, punch press operator at Minsk Tractor Plant's mechanical workshop and actor of the At Dolgy Ford folk theater of the plant's Cultural Center.01.05.1973#5754627
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Estonian Agricultural Academy (now Estonian University of Natural Sciences). Fourth-year students of the Department of Veterinary Science during surgical training.23.09.1972#6339363
Scientist and surgeon Yasin Bakir from the Republic of Iraq in the USSR. Yasin Bakir performs a surgery.01.06.1972#5519570
Scientist and surgeon Yasin Bakir from the Republic of Iraq in the USSR. Yasin Bakir prepares a surgery.01.06.1972#5519569
The Neurology Research Institute of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences (present-day Research Center of Neurology). A brain surgery at the institute's clinic headed by Eduard Kandel (Head of the institute's Neurology Department from 1965 to 1990).01.06.1972#5519348
Right: Merited Scientist Professor Agnessa Bazhenova, Head of the Breast Oncology Department at the Russian Healthcare Ministry's Herzen Moscow Oncology Research Institute, operates on a patient.22.11.1971#5674170
A heart surgery at the USSR Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.01.09.1971#5597246
A kidney transplant operation at the Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery.01.07.1971#762566
A kidney transplant operation at the Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery.01.07.1971#762565
The Krasnodar Territory State Medical Institute, now University. professor Nikolai Muratov, DSc (Medicine), operates on a patient.06.01.1971#5611083
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy in Odessa. Theater in use.03.11.1970#5687076
Academician Burdenko Research Institute of Neurosurgery of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (today's Academician Burdenko National Scientific and Practical Center for Neurosurgery). Surgery preparation.09.07.1970#5661754
The International Symposium on Reanimation. Professor Vladimir Negovsky, background left, demonstrating the preparation of a dog experiment in the Moscow Laboratory for Experimental Reanimation at the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences.01.01.1969#784775
The Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. Movie theater where a presentation of a surgical operation at Prague military hospital takes place.26.11.1968#5684915
Prof. Gleb Solovyov, a surgeon at the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Surgery, sewing in a cardiac valve during a heart operation. 21.07.1967#30518
Conducting open-heart surgery at the Research and Development Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery of the RSFSR Ministry of Healthcare, now the Academician Petrovsky Russian Surgery Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Photo: Doctors are using the ISL-2 multirole system that substitutes the heart and lungs.26.07.1965#5959485
Professor Boris Petrovsky, Head of the Department of Hospital Surgery at the Sechenov First Medical Institute Clinic, left by the operating table, during a surgery at the hospital surgery clinic.04.07.1962#5747083
The Rural District Hospital in Kraskovo in the Ukhtomsky District, now Kraskovo town in the Lyubertsy District. Photo: A team of surgeons, headed by doctor-oncologist, Hero of Socialist Labor Alexandra Cheborareva, Head of the Surgery Department and Merited Doctor of the Russian Federation, second right.15.02.1961#8934982
Soviet surgeon, academician at the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Director of the Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery (today's Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery), Chief Surgeon of the Defense Ministry of the USSR Alexander Vishnevsky, center, during surgery.09.04.1956#5815853
Students at Sechenov First Order of Lenin Moscow Medical Institute (today's Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University) during practical classes in the surgery unit.31.03.1956#5815846
Soviet-Japanese War of August 9 - September 3, 1945. The 2nd Far Eastern Front. Japanese artillery seized by Soviet forces.20.09.1945#5822484
