Background
FIGURNOV, Konstantin was born on June 9, 1887.
FIGURNOV, Konstantin was born on June 9, 1887.
1905 graduate Voronezh high school. 1912 graduate Military Medical Academy.
After graduate intern under Professor Doctorate. Doctorate. Popov, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Military Medical Academy. During World War I military surgeon: 1918 resumed former post at Military Medical Academy. From 1919 senior physician.
Red Army rifle regt; from 1920 assistant chief physician, Clinical Military Hospital and acting assistant professor, Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Military Medical Academy. From 1921 assistant professor, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Military Medical Academy. 1923 defended doctor’s thesis on "The Anatomical Foundations for an Effective Operation to Cure Enuresis in Women”.
From 1931 professor, then head until death, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Military Medical Academy. 1952-1961 also sci director, Leningrad Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences. Devised two operations for the cure of enuresis in women resulting from childbirth trauma.
Did research on the duration of pregnancy. Studied cyclic changes in the endometrium, perforation of the uterus in abortions, the operative treatment of cancer of the womb by the extended abdominal method, ect. Took special interest in the soc aspects of gynecology, notably in his book Trud i beremennost' (Work and Pregnancy).
Chairman, Problems Commission for Planning Research at Chairs of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Soviet Higher Medical Training Establishments, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences. Chairman, Leningrad Sciences Social of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Member, Znaniye (Knowledge) Social.
Member, ed collegium, journal Aliuslierstvo i ginekologiya: co-ed, obstetrics and gynecology' section, Bol’sliaya meditsinsbaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed). Foundcr-chairman, Samarkand Sciences Social of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Wrote over 70 works.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1946.