Background
GIRGOLAV, Semyon was born in 1881 in Tiflis.
GIRGOLAV, Semyon was born in 1881 in Tiflis.
1904 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy.
Worked at Kronstadt Hospital and as ship's surgeon on the cruiser Rossiya. 1908 worked at clinic, Chair of General Surgery, Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy. 1909 sent to Germany to study under Professor Hertwig, Professor Friedberg, et cetera
1912-1919 associate professor, from 1919 professor and head Chair of General Surgery, Saint St. Petersburg (Petrograd) Military Medical Academy. From 1919 simultaneously professor, Petrograd State Institute of Medical Knowledge.
1932-1957 deputy sci director, Leningrad Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics. 1937-1954 head, Chair of Hospital Surgery, Kirov Military Medical Academy, Leningrad. 1941-1945 Deputy Chief Surgeon of Soviet Army.
From 1954 consulting professor, Leningrad Military Medical Academy. Leading member, Pirogov Surgical Social, Leningrad. Member, then deputy chairman, Learned Medical Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Health.
Editor and author, various sections, Opyt sovetskoy meditsiny v Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyne 1941-1945 (Soviet Medicine During the 1941-1945 Great Fatherland War). Editor and co-ed, various medical journals. Dcp, Leningrad City and Rayon soviet
Established new four-degree classification of frostbite and devised new fast-treatment method which is widely used in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Wrote over 120 works, including 75 original research papers.
Religion is bad because it obstructs scientific research.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.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.