Journal of Experimental and Clinical SurgeryJournal of Experimental and Clinical Surgery2070-478X2409-143XVoronezh State Medical University115610.18499/2070-478X-2018-11-2-151UnknownLEVIT Vladimir Semenovich –
doktor meditsinskikh nauk, professor, zasluzhennyy deyatel' nauki RSFSR, vydayushchiysya khirurg, dekan meditsinskogo fakul'teta Irkutskogo universiteta, general-mayor meditsinskoy sluzhbyAndreevAlexander Alekceevich<p class="paraoverride-12"><span class="charoverride-4"><span lang="EN-US">(Executive Secretary) - Ph.D., Professor of the Department of General Surgery, Deputy Director of the Institute of Surgical Infections for Research of N.N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University.</span></span></p>sugery@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5242-6105OstroushkoAnton Petrovich<p>PhD, lecturer, Department of General Surgery</p>mail@vestnik-surgery.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3656-5954N.N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University.3006201811215115117012018Copyright © , Andreev A.A., Ostroushko A.P.<p>Vladimir Semyonovich Levit was born in 1883. He studied at the Medical Faculty of the University of Konigsberg (1901-1906). In 1914, Vladimir Semenovich defended his doctoral dissertation, became head of the surgical department of the Simbirsk Province Hospital, and began teaching at a paramedic school. V.S. Levit was elected privat-docent of the faculty surgical clinic of Tomsk University (1919), privat-docent (1922), then professor and head of the department of the faculty surgical clinic, dean of the medical faculty (1922-1926) of Irkutsk University, head of the department of hospital surgery of medical faculty of 2nd Moscow University (since 1926), which was headed for 27 years. V.S. Levit for the first time in the USSR successfully resected cardia (1928), surgery for hernia of the esophageal aperture (1929). He was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR in 1936. During the Great Patriotic War V.S. Levit was appointed chief surgeon of the Moscow Military District, deputy chief surgeon of the Soviet Army (1942), and in 1943 he became a major general of the medical service. Since 1950, V.S. Levit was chief surgeon of the Central Military Hospital named after P.V. Mandrik. He published 120 scientific works, he was the editor of 3-volume manual, 2-volume textbook on surgery, the surgical section of the Great Medical Encyclopedia, the publication "The Experience of Soviet Medicine in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." V.S. Levit was the editor of the magazine "Soviet Surgery" (later "Surgery") (1931-1953), a member of the editorial board of the journals "New Surgery", "Russian Clinic", "Central Medical Journal." He was the head and scientific consultant in the preparation of 23 Ph.D. and 10 doctoral dissertations. V.S. Levit was a member of the International Surgical Society, chairman of the Moscow Surgical Society, a member of the Academic Council of the Ministry of Health of the USSR, and district Soviets of Working People's Deputies. V.S. Leviticus was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, the Red Star, medals. V.S. Leviticus died in 1961 in Moscow.</p>ЛЕВИТ Владимир Семеновичдоктор медицинских наукпрофессорзаслуженный деятель науки РСФСРдекан медицинского факультета Иркутского университетагенерал-майор медицинской службыЛЕВИТ Владимир Семеновичдоктор медицинских наукпрофессорзаслуженный деятель науки РСФСРдекан медицинского факультета Иркутского университетагенерал-майор медицинской службы[Andreev A.A. Anniversary of the year 2018 / A.A. Andreev, A.P. Ostroushko, N.V. Khutorna // Scientific and Practical Journal "Multiprofile Hospital" - Т. IV, №2. - 2017. - P. 124-134.]