Background
KUPRIYANOV, Pyotr was born on February 7, 1893.
KUPRIYANOV, Pyotr was born on February 7, 1893.
1915 graduate Petrograd Military Medical Academy.
1915-1917 military surgeon in Russian Army and surgical intern, South. P. Fyodorov and V. A. Oppel’s clinics, Petrograd Military Medical Academy. 1918-1924 lecturer, assistant professor, then associate professor, 1924-1938 senior intern and head, Surgical Department, Leningrad Military Hospital. 1926-1929 associate professor, 1930-1949 professor and head, Chair of Operative Surgery and Topographical Anatomy, 1st Leningrad Medical Institute.
1938-1940 chief surgeon, Leningrad Military district. Served in Finno-Soviet War. 1940-1949 head Chair of Faculty Surgery, 1st Leningrad Medical Institute.
1941-1945 front-line surgeon. 1944-1963 director, 2nd Faculty Surgical Clinic and Surgical Clinic, Faculty of Postgraduate Medical Training, Leningrad Military Medical Academy. 1944-1950 vice-president, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.
Editor, section on thoracic wounds, multivol Opyt sovetskoy meditsiny v Velikoy Otechestvennoy Voyne (Soviet Medicine in the Great Fatherland War). Chairman and Honorary member, All-LInion Social of Surgeons. Lion member, Pirogov Surgical Social, Leningrad.
Member, cd bd, and co-ed, surgery section, Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed). Member, editorial board, journal Vestnik khirurgii imeni North. North. Grekova. Member, ed council, journal Khirurgiya.
1955 attended 16th International Surgical Congress, Copenhagen, and visited surgical clinics in Norway and Sweden. 1957 attended 3rd International Surgical Congress, Turin. From 1959 chairman, Commission for Competitive Surgical Prizes, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.
From 1961 Honorary member, Social of Polish Surgeons. Pioneered Soviet lung and thoracic surgery. Was one of first Soviet surgeons to treat congenital and acquired heart diseases.
Introduced hypothermy in Soviet clinical practice and performed open-heart operations. Trained many top surgeons, including Professors M. South. Grigor’yev, I. South. Kolesnikov, A. P. Kolesov, V. 1. Kolesov, South. L. Libov and P. K. Romanov.
The clinic of the Leningrad Military Medical Academy at which he worked now bears his name. Wrote over 100 works.
Religion obstructs scientific research and technological progress.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1944.