Journal of Experimental and Clinical Surgery, Vol 15 (2022)

VIKTOR IVANOVICH BULYNIN - Professor, Chairman of the Voronezh Regional Society of Surgeons, Honorary Citizen of the City of Voronezh

Остроушко A.A., Kovalev S.A., Bulynin V.V.

Abstract


Viktor Ivanovich Bulynin was born on October 12, 1932 in Leningrad, in a family of doctors. After graduating from high school, Viktor Ivanovich entered the Kuban Medical Institute. Two years later, in connection with the parents' move to Stavropol, Viktor Ivanovich, along with his older sister Lyudmila Ivanovna, who later was a wonderful surgeon who gave all his labor energy to surgery in the most difficult areas of the Stavropol Territory, transferred to the Stavropol Medical Institute. The institute years were spent not only at the student desk, but also in the experimental laboratory, where the surgeons of the circle regularly worked under the guidance of associate professor of the Department of Faculty Surgery Bulynin Ivan Ivanovich. By the end of the institute, Viktor Ivanovich already had a mock-up and an experimental sample of a device for stitching vessels without stopping blood flow. In 1957. after graduating from the medical faculty of the Stavropol Medical Institute, he was assigned to the Petrovsky district, where he worked as the head of the surgical department at the district hospital of the village of Gofitskoye, Stavropol Territory. Already in those years, Viktor Ivanovich usually performed cholecystectomies, gastric resections, nephrectomies and other operations of planned and emergency surgery and gynecology under local anesthesia. At the same time, he successfully reimplanted a limb torn off during agricultural work to a collective farmer, as the regional newspapers wrote about. In 1959, Viktor Ivanovich, on the advice of his father, a well-known surgeon in the Stavropol region at that time, went to Moscow to show vascular surgery specialists the vasoconstrictor device he had developed as a student. After meeting with Academician A.A. Vishnevsky, he was accepted to a workplace in the Department of Vascular Surgery of the A.V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, and soon enrolled in the postgraduate course of the Institute.
Here he becomes a participant in the rapid development of heart surgery in those years and works a lot in the department of cardiac surgery under the supervision of Prof. N.K. Galankin. There he defended his PhD thesis in 1961 under the supervision of Prof. N.K. Galankin and Prof. I.I. Khozhainov on the topic "Circular suture of the aorta with a minimum time of cessation of blood flow". After graduating from graduate school, Viktor Ivanovich and his friend, a fellow graduate student, made several offers, including continuing to work in their specialty in Moscow, but the young doctors left to raise cardiac surgery in the republics of the USSR. Viktor Ivanovich is going to Kazakhstan, to Karaganda with the intention to put cardiovascular surgery there. Working as an assistant, and since 1964 as an associate professor of the Department of Hospital Surgery, he operates a lot in various fields of surgery, introduces heart sounding and angiography, begins heart surgery. In 1965, the first mitral valve stenosis operation was performed in Karaganda – mitral commissurotomy. The patient turned out to be a younger woman who, after recovery, presented Viktor Ivanovich with an album of illustrations of the Hermitage (it is still kept in the Bulynin family as a relic) with a gift inscription.
The first heart surgeries for pre-acquired defects coincided with the release of a film based on the novel by N.M.Amosov "Thoughts and Heart". The first screening of this film in Karaganda was announced by Viktor Ivanovich, who also led the discussion after it. Being a primary school student, Viktor Ivanovich's eldest son participated in this event as a spectator, after the film he commented on this event: "I was overwhelmed with pride for the success of Karaganda surgery and the first and only desire in choosing a profession appeared - to become a surgeon." Simultaneously with active surgical and academic work at the department, Viktor Ivanovich works as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
In 1971, Viktor Ivanovich defended his doctoral dissertation on "Clinical forms of pulmonary hypertension in patients with mitral stenosis". The scientific consultants of this work were well-known professors I.K.Galankin, L.D.Krymsky, F.L.Gektin. Immediately after defending his doctoral dissertation, Viktor Ivanovich is elected to the post of head of the Department of Hospital Surgery. The first students of Viktor Ivanovich were subsequently well-known doctors: Prof. D.I.Bogomolov, the personal physician of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev S.E.Tokpanov, Prof. Departments of General Surgery of the Moscow Medical University named after I.M.Sechenov, A.N.Afonasyev, etc.
In 1975, V.I. Bulynin took the position of head of the Department of Hospital Surgery of the Voronezh State Medical Institute by competition. The arrival to the management coincided with the transition of the clinic to a new standard building of the regional clinical hospital, where 10 specialized surgical departments were deployed in good conditions on 500 - hundred beds, including the interregional heart surgery center for 60 beds. Having a good command of various sections of surgery, Viktor Ivanovich energetically put into practice dozens of new operations for Voronezh (more than 60 names in total). Viktor Ivanovich was a polyvalent surgeon, but he gave special preference to cardiac and vascular surgery. Cardiosurgery, surgery of large vessels under Professor V.I. Bulynin has reached the level corresponding to world standards in Voronezh. The organization of kidney transplantation and microsurgery services is associated with the name of Viktor Ivanovich.
Professor V.I. Bulynin was a member of many European Associations of surgeons, a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Society of Surgeons, an honorary citizen of Voronezh. All the years of his stay in Voronezh, he headed the Regional Scientific and Practical Society of Surgeons. He is the author of more than 30 inventions, 4 monographs; 34 dissertations were defended under his leadership, 6 collections of works on various sections of surgery were published. V.I. Bulynin created a school of vascular, cardio, gastrourgeons and surgeons of other specialties in Voronezh. After the untimely death of Viktor Ivanovich in 1998, the work of his beloved professor was continued by his students. In the memory of them and everyone who knew him, Viktor Ivanovich remains a charming, intelligent, athletic, cheerful and wise man, a wonderful professional who gave all his strength to people and his beloved surgery.
Viktor Ivanovich was an avid traveler. He visited many countries of the world, where he got acquainted with people's lives, as well as new achievements in medicine, especially surgery, his stay in the USA, in private and public clinics, where he took part in operations, was especially interesting.
Every person has dreams that are destined or not destined to come true in life. Such dreams of Viktor Ivanovich were the sections of transplantology. Viktor Ivanovich managed to transplant kidneys and return severed limbs to patients, as well as transplant various tissues of his own to patients using microsurgery during his lifetime, which he was very proud of. Thanks to the efforts of the doctors of the cardiac surgery center and their Moscow colleagues, it was possible to realize his dream of a heart transplant. But the dream of transplanting the liver, pancreas and other abdominal organ complexes is worse – it has not yet been realized for various subjective and objective reasons. But there is hope that this dream will be realized by the hands of Viktor Ivanovich's students. The name of V.I.Bulynin is associated with the formation of a new Voronezh Surgical School, whose students head key positions in practical healthcare and medical education.
Viktor Ivanovich was a versatile person who was constantly in contact with representatives of the creative intelligentsia – he was friends with the famous Russian family of sculptor I.P.Dikunov, writer G.N.Troepolsky, talantlev engineers, Lenin Prize laureate I.I. Poyarkov, G.V.Sukhodolsky, composer M. I. Nosarev, architect P.P. Danilenko, editor R.A. Khodeev, prof. chemist Goncharov E.G., Davydov O.M. and many others.
This friendly contact made it possible to create subjects and programs at the junction of specialties that are so necessary not only for medicine, but also for other spheres of life of residents of the Voronezh region. Representatives of various age groups of Voronezh residents gratefully remember Viktor Ivanovich Bulynin.