Background
Petrovsky, Boris Vasilyevich was born on June 27, 1908 in Essentuky, Russia. Son of Vasily Ivanovich and Lidiya Petrovna (Shevchenko) Petrovsky.
Petrovsky, Boris Vasilyevich was born on June 27, 1908 in Essentuky, Russia. Son of Vasily Ivanovich and Lidiya Petrovna (Shevchenko) Petrovsky.
First Moscow University. Problems of blood transfusion, oncology, surgery of vessels and organs of thoracic cavity, surgical treatment of congenital and acquired heart diseases, kidney transplant.
Surgeon District Hospital, Podolsk, Russia, 1931-1932. Physician then senior Research fellow Central Research Oncology Institute, Moscow, 1932-1939. Leading surgeon Military Hospital No 500 of the 13th Army in Carelia, 1939-1949.
Senior assistant Medical Military Academy in Leningrad, 1944-1945. Deputy director research, head. department Lung, Heart and Esophagus Surgical Institute for Experimental and Clinical Surgery, Academy Medical Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1945-1948. Director 2nd Surgical Clinic, University Budapest, 1949-1951.
Head of the chair of surgery 2 Moscow Medical Institute, 1951-1956. Head of chair of hospital surgery 1 Moscow Medical Institute, 1956-1963. Director state research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery, 1963-1965.
Minister of health Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1965-1980. Director state research center of surgery Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, 1980-1988. Honr. director research center of surgery Academy of Medical Sciences of Russia, since 1980.
Head of chair hospital surgery 1 Moscow Medical Academy, since 1956. Honorary director Research Center of Surgery of Russian Academy of Medical Science, 1988.
Author 28 books. Contributor over 300 articles to professional journals.
Deputy Soviet State, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1966-1983. Minister of health, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1965-1980. Candidate Central Committee Member, 1965-1980.With Soviet Army, 1941-1944.
Member Royal Colleges of Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland (honorary), American College of Surgeons (honorary), Surgical Academy of France, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (president of council of elders), Physicians Movement Against Violence Wars (president 1994).
Book collection and gardening.
Married Ekaterina Mikhailovna Timofeeva, December 15, 1934. 1 child, Marina Borisovna.