[Vascular surgery in Russia. Personalities, dates, events, facts, scientific and practical schools. 1710-1980s]

The article describes the main milestones (persons, dates, events, facts) of the origin and development of vascular surgery in Russia and the USSR from the beginning of the 18th century. It is shown that N.L. Bidloo was the first to describe in 1710 methods of surgical treatment of diseases of arteries and veins. Clinical vascular surgery in Russia began in the 1810s in St. Petersburg within the academic surgical clinic of the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy, where the first operations for arterial aneurysm were performed (I.F. Bush and his students), the first dissertation on vascular surgery was defended (V.V. Pelikan), the origin of angiology were laid (I.F. Bush) and the first school of vascular surgeons was created (I.F. Bush). Major investment to the development of vascular surgery and angiology in the mid-19th century contributed by N.I. Pirogov. At the turn of the 19-20th centuries operations for lateral and circular vessel suture were developed by A.A. Yasinovsky, I.F. Sabaneev, A.I. Morozova, etc., who laid the foundations of modern vascular surgery. In the first half of the twentieth century the development of reconstructive vascular surgery was influenced by the works of N.A. Bogoraz, during the Great Patriotic War the dissertations of A.I. Arutyunov and B.V. Petrovsky were defended, in the post-war years vascular surgery developed in parallel with the development of heart surgery. Great influence on its development in 1972-1973 provided orders from the USSR Ministry of Health (B.V. Petrovsky) and the RSFSR Ministry of Health (V.V. Trofimov) on the creation of republican and interregional cardiac surgery centers in the country. During these years, large scientific and practical schools in the field of vascular surgery began to form by B.V. Petrovsky, A.A. Vishnevsky, N.I. Krakovsky, A.N. Bakulev, V.S. Savelyev, A.V. Pokrovsky, P.A. Kupriyanov, A.N. Filatov and others. In parallel with traditional open vascular surgery, X-ray endovascular surgery began to develop. All this laid the foundation for the institutionalization of vascular surgery in Russia.