[Fedor Orestovich Evetsky. (To the 170th anniversary of his birth)]

This review was compiled for the 170th anniversary of the birth of Fedor Orestovich Evetsky - a prominent Russian ophthalmologist, and contains a summary of the published facts of his biography, clinical work and scientific research, as well as a number of archived materials made publicly available for the first time. The main attention is paid to the activity of F.O. Evetsky as an employee and teacher at the Medical Faculty of the Moscow University, the article also notes his efforts to defend the right of female doctors to work as residents in Moscow University clinics, and highlights his part as the main initiator of the creation of the Moscow Ophthalmological Club. To the regret of the scientific community, the activities of F.O. Evetsky as a residency professor of the academic department and the director of the eye clinic at the Yuriev University remain little known and unexplored.