Background
Aleksandr Bakulev was born on December 8, 1890 in Kirov Oblast, Russia.
Aleksandr Bakulev was born on December 8, 1890 in Kirov Oblast, Russia.
In 1915 Aleksandr Bakulev graduated in medicine from Saratov University.
1915-1917 physician in Russian Army. 1918-1922 regt physician in Red Army. 1922-1926 assistant professor, Surgical Clinic, Saratov University.
1926-1930 assistant professor, then associate professor, 1939-1967 professor and director, Spasokukovskiy Clinic of Faculty Surgery, Pirogov 2nd Moscow Med Institute. 1942-1943 chief surgeon, evacuation hospitals in Moscow and head. Surgical Department, 1st Moscow Municipal Hospital.
1953-1960 president, USSR Academy of Med Sciences. 1956-1959 director, 1959-1967 sci director, Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, USSR Academy of Med Sciences. 1947-1958 correspondent member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences.
1956 founded Institute of Thoracic Surgery, USSR Academy of Sciences. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1950, 1954 and 1958 convocations. Ed, journal Vestnik Akademii meditsinskikh nauk SSSR.
Member, cd bd, journal Crudnaya khirurgiya-, ed, Bol’shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed) and Populyarnaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Popular Medical Encyclopedia). Member, editorial board, journals Novyy khirurgi- cheskiy arkhiv and Khirurgiya. Chairman, Sciences Coordinating Center, USSR Academy of Med Sciences.
From 1960 Honorary member, All-Union Social of Surgeons. 1945 visited San Francisco with Soviet deleg for inauguration of United Nations. 1955 delivered paper on heart surgery at 16th International Congress of Surgeons, Copenhagen.
Attended 7th Yugoslav Surgeons Congress, Belgrade. Visited Norway and Sweden. 1956 visited England.
Delivered paper on ’The Operative Treatment of Mitral Stenosis” at the 4th International Congress on Thoracic Diseases, Cologne. 1957 delivered paper on "The Indication of Vascular Anastomoses in Congenital Cyanotic Disorders of the Heart” at International Congress, Turin: 1960 attended 12th Congress of Surgeons, Rome. From 1959 member, Serbian Academy of Sciences.
From 1960 Honorary member, Purkyne Med Social, Czechoslovakia: from 1961 Honorary member, Polish Surgeons Social. 1963 attended 20th International Congress of Surgeons and 4th International Congress on Cardiovascular Surgery, Rome. From 1965 Honorary Doctor of Glasgow University.
Wrote numerous works on brain, chest and heart surgery and on lung diseases.