Background
Lev Nikolaevich was born on May 18, 1936 in Moscow.
Lev Nikolaevich was born on May 18, 1936 in Moscow.
In 1954, after graduating from secondary school, Lev Nikolaevich entered Vitebsk State Order of Peoples' Friendship Medical University, on the 3rd course he transferred to the 2nd Medical Institute named after Pirogov, and graduated in 1960.
After the graduation, Lev Nikolaevich was distributed to the 1st Moscow City Medical and Sports Dispensary. From 1963 to 2003 he worked as the chief physician of this institution.
Lev Nikolaevich was involved in medical training of many outstanding athletes, including two-times Olympic champion, multiple champion of the USSR Olga Pleshkova, hockey players A. Maltsev, P. Bure, Vladimir Kasatonov and others. In different years his patients were Y. Vizbor, A. Rosenbaum, N. Karachentsov, A. Korzhakov, V. Anpilov and many other celebrities.
Under his leadership, the members of the USSR national teams and leading athletes were trained for competitions of various levels - the Olympic Games, World and European championships, including on ski race, biathlon, speed skating. He was a member of the USSR Olympic delegations in France, Canada, Yugoslavia, Norway, Japan, and also was the chief physician of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980.
Lev Nikolaevich participated on several occasions in the work of Russian and international congresses and conferences, delivered a report at the European Parliament session on the problems of combating drug abuse and doping in Prague (1996), at the World Seminar of Sports Physicians in Paris (1998). He presented several times a series of lectures at the universities of Pittsburgh and Los Angeles (USA). He was the organizer of the world symposia on sports medicine in Moscow.
In addition to scientific and practical work, he was a lecturer at the Russian Academy of Physical Culture and Sports. He also had the academic title of professor.
Lev Nikolaevich was the first in the world to discover and describe the clinical signs and causes of death in DIC syndrome among athletes. He had a priority in the study of this illness in sport, its prevention and treatment in the national sports medicine. He was constantly working on the problems of doping in athletes, doping control and prevention of the use of doping drugs. The results of his researches laid the basis for the creation of a unique biomedical training program for athletes and cosmonauts.
Lev Nikolaevich was the founder and permanent editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "Bulletin of Russian Sports Medicine".
