Almost every day I pass this square. A small nameless square, nothing special. Recently, a monument to doctors was erected here. Suddenly a name appeared on the square. Then I decided to ask what kind of square is so close to my house. And I learned a lot of interesting things.
In the square there is a monument dedicated to doctors. It is an ancient symbol of medicine - a snake wrapping a bowl.
This square is located opposite the clinic of hospital surgery, and now the First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after IP Pavlov, which for more than 50 years was headed by the academician himself. The windows of the office, where Uglov sat, came out just in this square.
The square named after Fyodor Uglova received its name in the summer of 2014. There was much debate about this name. Officials said that the residents of the district do not know who the Uglov was and suggested that they give the name of Surgeon Uglov Square. But the doctors won by insisting on their own. Let people ask. And they were right. It turns out that it was not just a famous surgeon with a world name. His whole life is continuous records and discoveries. Read his biography and understand what I'm talking about.
Fyodor Uglov (1904-2008) - born in Irkutsk province, surgeon, Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, member of the Writers' Union of Russia, winner of the Lenin Prize, editor-in-chief of the journal "Herald of Surgery named after I. Grekov."
It's just a list of merits, but how many lives are saved behind these dry data!
When you get acquainted with the biography of the academician, you are surprised at how long life he lived, and what a huge number of events happened in it. Fyodor Grigoryevich faced three epochs. Born before the revolution, having lived most of the time in the Soviet Union, having found a new Russia, he constantly worked. And his work was constantly in demand at all times.
Just imagine: Uglov was born in a small remote village and went through a grandiose path from a zemstvo doctor to an academician of world importance.
Fyodor Grigorievich was often asked: "What is the secret of longevity?" And he answered: "We must see beauty and kindness." But these are the two main principles for a Russian person.
At the First Medical Institute there is an institute of pulmonology, which Fyodor Uglov created and for many years directed him.
Uglov worked all 900 days of the blockade in the besieged city by the surgeon - the chief of the surgical department of one of the hospitals. Then more than 40 years he headed the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Medical University, created a large surgical school.
Fedor Grigorievich Uglov has the main achievement: he lived 104 years and until the last days of his life operated on patients.
It was Academician Uglov who invented an artificial heart valve. He never left medical practice, the longest among surgeons, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Uglov wrote the book "The Heart of the Surgeon". This book is a desktop for any doctor. For medical students this is an instruction that clearly states what kind of doctor should be, how he should perform his duty. By the way, according to this book are going to shoot a series about the work of doctors.
The Foundation for the Preservation and Development of the Scientific, Literary and Social Heritage of Academician F. G. Uglov has allocated money for the installation of the monument. The author of the monument is the People's Artist of Russia A. Dem, who at one time was treated at Uglov. This is the collective image of the doctor examining the patient.
The square of Fyodor Uglov is one of the squares of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg, at the intersection of the streets of Roentgen and Leo Tolstoy. Once again I want to write that the square is named in honor of the outstanding Soviet surgeon and writer Fyodor Grigorevich Uglov.