Background
YELETSKY, Aleksandr was born in 1884 in Kharkov.
Orthopedist and traumatologist
YELETSKY, Aleksandr was born in 1884 in Kharkov.
1911 graduated Medical Faculty, Kharkov University.
Со-Editor, “Surgery” section, “Bolshaya meditsinskaya entsilopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition. Member, Editor Board, journal “Ortopediya, travmatologiya i protezirovaniya” (Orthopedics, Traumatology and Prosthetics). Works deal with: functional restoration of sustenaculomotor apparatus.
Anatomy of vascular innervation of lower extremities. Regeneration of bony tissues. Diseases and injuries of the spine.
Organ, of prosthetic appliances and labor aids for invalids, etc. 1911-1913 army doctor and Assistant. 1913-1914 Assistant Prosector, Professor S. Spasokukotsky’s Chair of Operative Surgery, Saratov University.
1914-1917 surgeon, main division dressing station, Russia Army. 1918-1920 Assistant, 1920-1925 Prosector, 1925-1932 Head, Chair of Operative Surgery, Saratov University. 1932-1940 Head, Chair of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Kiev Medicine Institute, and Head,Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Kiev Orthopedics Institute.
1940-1941 lecturer, Kiev Medicine Institute. 1941-1944 surgeon in various Soviet Army evacuation hospitals.