Aleksandr TRIUMFOV

1897 (age 66)

Made many innovations in study of neural infections and battle traumas of the nervous system, its complications and sequelae. Founded Neurosurgical Section at Dept, of Nervous Diseases, Military Medicine Academy, which has become central section for Soviet Navy. His works on intratruncal structure of the median nerve are among foremost studies on architectonics of the peripheral nervous system. Since 1955 consultant, Polenov Neurosurgical Institute. Has attended congresses and conferences of neuropathologists, psychiatrists and neurosurgeons. Board member, Leningrad Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists. Co-Editor, “Neurology” section, “Bolshaya meditsinkaya entsikolpediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition. Member, Editor Council, State Medicine Publ. House and “Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova” (S. S. Korsakov Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry). Edited many monographs and symposia of articles on neuropathology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, neurophthalmology, etc. Deputy, Leningrad City Soviet. 1919-1922 Assistant, State Institute of Medicine Knowledge. 1931-1938 Director, Chairs of Nervous Diseases, Novosibirsk Postgraduate Medicine Institute, and Novosibirsk Medicine Institute. 1938-1940 Director, Chair of Nervous Diseases, 3rd Leningrad Medicine Institute. During World War II Chief Neuropathologist for Soviet Navy.

Aleksandr Viktorovich TRIUMFOV

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Clinician and neuropathologist

Background

TRIUMFOV, Aleksandr was born in 1897.

Education

1917 graduated Petrograd Military Medicine Academy. 1917-1931 specialized in neuropathology in Chair of Nervous Diseases.

Career

Made many innovations in study of neural infections and battle traumas of the nervous system, its complications and sequelae. Founded Neurosurgical Section at Dept, of Nervous Diseases, Military Medicine Academy, which has become central section for Soviet Navy. His works on intratruncal structure of the median nerve are among foremost studies on architectonics of the peripheral nervous system.

Since 1955 consultant, Polenov Neurosurgical Institute. Has attended congresses and conferences of neuropathologists, psychiatrists and neurosurgeons. Board member, Leningrad Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists.

Co-Editor, “Neurology” section, “Bolshaya meditsinkaya entsikolpediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition. Member, Editor Council, State Medicine Publ. House and “Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova” (S. S. Korsakov Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry).

Edited many monographs and symposia of articles on neuropathology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, neurophthalmology, etc. Deputy, Leningrad City Soviet. 1919-1922 Assistant, State Institute of Medicine Knowledge.

1931-1938 Director, Chairs of Nervous Diseases, Novosibirsk Postgraduate Medicine Institute, and Novosibirsk Medicine Institute. 1938-1940 Director, Chair of Nervous Diseases, 3rd Leningrad Medicine Institute. During World War II Chief Neuropathologist for Soviet Navy.

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There is no solid or tangible evidence for God nor a logical argument for God. The existence of God is taken on faith and not by evidence.

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Member, Communist Party, since 1927.

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Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.

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Correspondent member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences from 1951.

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1955

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