[Department of Hospital Surgery No. 2 - 60 years of surgical development]

The work is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Hospital Surgery No. 2 and aims to preserve the historical memory of the establishment and development of the Department, which was created on the basis of the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care in 1964. The paper tells about the prerequisites of the founding of the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Evening Medical Faculty of the 1st Moscow Order of Lenin I.M. Sechenov Medical Institute, contribution to the development of medical sciences, in particular surgery and transplantology, about all the heads of the Department (B.A. Petrov, A.P. Sytnik, V.I. Petrov, G.M. Solovev, A.F. Chernousov, A.I. Chernookov), their scientific and practical activities. The article presents for the first time historical photographs of the staff of the department at different times, archival documents.