[Contribution of A.F. Kablukov (1857-1915) to biliary surgery]

In 2023, it was 130 years since the opening of the Alexander Surgical Hospital at the Tauride Provincial Zemstvo Hospital, where many talented doctors worked. This authors present new facts about outstanding surgeon who worked in Simferopol at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Alexander Fedorovich Kablukov (1857-1915). He was a founder of surgical school in the Tauride province, who first described cholecystectomy In Russian-language literature. The report covers in detail famous surgery restored thanks to pre-revolutionary sources. Excerpts from other little-known reports of surgeon related to the treatment of gallbladder and biliary diseases are also presented.