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Nikolay Burdenko

1876 - 1946

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Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Николай Нилович Бурденко; 22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of 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, and a Stalin Prize winner (1941). He was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, Winter War and the German-Soviet War. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Burdenko is the 581st most popular physician (down from 562nd in 2019), the 1,732nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,736th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 581 out of 726. Before her are Karin Büttner-Janz, Borzuya, Özlem Türeci, Eugene Lazowski, Patrick Steptoe, and Albrecht von Graefe. After her are Andrea Andreen, James Paget, William Stokes, Nikolai Semashko, Oskar Vogt, and Gregorio Marañón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 163. Before her are Ameen Rihani, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Henri Hérouin, Paul Rivet, H. B. Warner, and Max O. Lorenz. After her are Havergal Brian, John Marshall, Pingali Venkayya, Clara Blandick, Mary Ritter Beard, and Paul Montel. Among people deceased in 1946, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 182. Before her are Frank Hadow, Eugene Lanceray, Barbu Știrbey, Wen Yiduo, Teodor Shteingel, and Jacob Ellehammer. After her are Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, Cornelius Johnson, Moriz Rosenthal, Bill Johnston, Lionel Dunsterville, and Leo Slezak.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 1,732 out of 3,761. Before her are Sergey Shakurov (1942), Anna Yegorova (1916), Fyodor Khitruk (1917), Natalya Baranskaya (1908), Alexander Bek (1903), and Fyodor Abramov (1920). After her are Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Anatoli Maslyonkin (1930), Boris Grigoriev (1886), Vitaly Bianki (1894), Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868), and Oleg Atkov (1949).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Russia

Among physicians born in Russia, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 9. Before her are Vera Weizmann (1881), Eugene Botkin (1865), Vladimir Filatov (1875), Nadezhda Suslova (1843), Arkady Vorobyov (1924), and Sergey Botkin (1832). After her are Nikolai Semashko (1874), Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), Peter Lesgaft (1837), Maria Vorontsova (1985), and Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov (1875).

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