Among the centenarians of Russia, Uglov Fedor Grigorievich occupies a special place. This man not only managed to reach 103 years of age, but also left a huge mark in the development of domestic medicine. A surgeon from God, a talented publicist, a tireless fighter for a healthy lifestyle ... He saved people not only with a scalpel, but also with a healing sharp word in different situations.
About the achievements of academician Uglov
Before embarking on a story about the life of Fyodor Grigorievich, one should list his main achievements so that the reader understands what kind of personality he is talking about.
Academician Fedor Uglov, who retired in the hundred and fourth year of his life, in addition to membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences, was also a member of the Union of Writers and many scientific societies, both Soviet (and then Russian), and international. In the State Orthodox Fund, he served as president, and the staff of the International Slavic Academy entrusted him with the post of vice president. In addition, Uglov published the journal Herald of Surgery.
But most clearly, of course, he showed himself in the role of a practicing physician. He was appreciated at home and abroad, calling it the engine of Russian surgery and comparing it with pioneers in space exploration.
Surgeon Fedor Uglov was a pioneer in conducting complex operations on the heart, esophagus, lungs and other organs. It was he who invented the artificial heart valve. He personally tested and made available many effective surgical techniques.
This man was said to have been born with a scalpel in his hands. Uglov possessed a unique surgical technique, and many luminaries of world medicine after operations performed by a Russian applauded him standing.
Uglov Fedor G.: biography
He was born on the fifth of October (September twenty-second according to the old style) in 1904 in the small village of Chuguevo, belonging to the Irkutsk province, in the family of ordinary peasants Grigory Gavrilovich and Anastasia Nikolaevna Uglovyh. The surgeon’s childhood passed in the countryside, in very modest, almost Spartan conditions. Dad and mom had six children, and the family could not boast of wealth.
Nevertheless, parents managed to educate five of their six offspring. After the end of the Kirensky ten-year Corner, Fedor decides to study further. Upon learning of such a decision of his son, the father gives him money for the trip to Irkutsk and declares that he will not be able to help anything else. Neither now nor later. The talented and stubborn guy had to achieve everything himself. He started literally from scratch.
Higher education
In Irkutsk, Uglov enters the Faculty of Medicine at East Siberian University without any problems. He studies with rapture and great diligence, apparently already feeling his destiny in the chosen field.
During his student days, a story happened with a guy, on the example of which he was convinced that there was a silver lining. In 1924, being in his second year, Uglov Fyodor visited Leningrad and after the trip became very ill. His body fought immediately with two varieties of typhus - rash and abdominal. The disease gave complications, sepsis began. For a long time, a twenty-year-old youth hung over the abyss. If it were not for the help of a classmate who undertook to nursing him, despite the existing small child, Uglov would hardly have been lucky enough to survive.
Subsequently, this kind girl became the wife of Fyodor, and he himself successfully graduated from the university - though not in Irkutsk, but in Saratov, where he transferred after the illness. Doctors advised him to change his place of residence, since Uglov’s health was affected by the cold Siberian climate.
First steps in medicine
The future was shining Russian medicine Fedor Uglov, whose biography began in a remote village, did not have enough stars from the sky and walked slowly to his heights, achieving success by hard work.
Having received his diploma in the twenty-ninth year, he worked as a simple district doctor in the countryside. First, in the Lower Volga region, then moved to Abkhazia.
Two years later, Uglov managed to get a place in the Leningrad hospital. Mechnikov, and after graduating from an internship, he ended up in the inter-district hospital for water workers in the city of Kirensk, where he was the chief physician, and then the head of the surgical department.
Prior to universal recognition, the doctor was still far away, although his personality even then attracted the attention of colleagues. Which, however, were more skeptical about the work of the young surgeon and did not particularly trust his talents.
Career development
Not wanting to stop there and limit herself to the role of a simple hospital worker, Uglov Fedor in 1937 became a graduate student of the Leningrad Medical Institute for Advanced Medical Studies and is actively working on scientific articles. His first topics were complications of typhoid fever and the development of surgery in the province - all that was close and very familiar. He chose one of the types of tumors as a topic for his PhD thesis, and lung resection for his Ph.D.
At the institute, Fyodor Grigoryevich worked first as an assistant, and then as an assistant professor in the department of surgery. And all this is against the backdrop of military events.
Work during the war
It should be noted that Fedor Uglov managed to visit the front during the Soviet-Finnish campaign, serving as a senior surgeon at a medical battalion from the 39th to the 40th year. And when the Great Patriotic War broke out, a talented doctor was not drafted into the army, apparently considering his role in the rear more important. Uglov operated in one of the Leningrad hospitals and steadily survived the fascist blockade.
In his own words, he did not die of starvation only due to luck. For some time he replaced the head of the hospital and was obliged to try the food that was fed to the sick - and survived.
900 blockade days left an indelible mark in the memory of Uglov. He often recalled how they operated on under bombing, without heating and in almost complete darkness. But despite everything, it was possible to save people.
1st Leningrad Medical University
Most of Fyodor Grigoryevich’s working life was spent within the walls of the First Leningrad Medical Institute, where he worked from 1950 to 1990, heading the department of hospital surgery.
During this period, Uglov Fedor Grigorievich created his own surgical school, educating a galaxy of first-class specialists. In parallel with classes with students, he continues to actively practice, performing unique operations.
Centenar
Uglov Fedor Grigorievich, whose biography began at the dawn of the twentieth century, managed to capture the 21st century, having lived as long as 103 years and several months. At the same time, until the last days, he kept a bright mind, good spirits and was physically active. Upon retirement, he read a lot (especially historical literature), worked on the garden plot, liked to arrange picnics in nature and ski. The body was constantly tempered, and the soul was kept in tone by sincere faith in God.
The youngest child was born at the academician when he was already sixty-six years old. And as a hundred-year-old man, Uglov claimed that he still maintains sexual activity and lives a regular sexual life. And all thanks to the fact that in his youth he limited the number of sexual acts one or two times a week.
He was even listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon. In the presence of witnesses, Uglov performed the operation at the age of one hundred.
Recommendations from Fedor Uglov
The eminent surgeon was often asked how he managed to live so much, because there were revolutions, wars, blockades, famines ... And he willingly shared his secrets, strongly recommending them to all applicants for longevity:
- love your job;
- to give time not only to mental, but also to physical work;
- to be devoted to the homeland;
- love your loved ones and be responsible for them;
- Do not overeat and avoid extra pounds;
- visit doctors on time and monitor your health;
- remain careful on the road while driving;
- love your body;
- live according to the regime - work and rest in moderation;
- Do not listen to destructive music (rock);
- do not drink or smoke, do not use drugs;
- constantly do good!
Fedor Uglov, whose photo is presented in this article, even at the finish of his life did not look decrepit. And his soul also kept youth. Therefore, the advice of an outstanding figure in medicine deserves the closest attention.
The fight for a healthy lifestyle
The surgeon Uglov Fedor Grigoryevich was engaged not only in the healing of the flesh. As a talented writer and publicist, he wrote hundreds of articles in which he tried to treat people with a good comforting word.
In addition to the exploits in the operating room, this man is also famous for his active struggle for a healthy lifestyle. He constantly spoke and wrote about the destructive effects of nicotine, alcohol and narcotic drugs on the body, citing convincing arguments and facts. He believed that a person should not allow himself a single cigarette, not a single glass of vodka, imposing a severe taboo on such things. Compromises in this matter Angles categorically did not allow.
The fight against total drunkenness also affected children. Corner called for stopping infants to drink kefir, containing a certain percentage of alcohol and involving babies in alcohol dependence from an early age. A massive media campaign has been launched in this regard.
From his pen came a lot of journalistic works devoted to a healthy lifestyle. The most famous of them are: “Suicides”, “Truth and lies about permitted drugs”, “In captivity of illusions”, “Trap for Russia”, etc.
By the way, Fedor Grigoryevich was convinced that before the revolution the Russians were not subject to drunkenness. Allegedly, they were drunk by the Jews with the goal of destroying the Russian nation. At the same time, the doctor did not consider himself an anti-Semite.
A little bit about family
As noted above, Uglov Fyodor first married in his early youth to his classmate, who left him after typhoid. But this marriage was not his only one.
The second wife of Uglov - Streltsova Emilia Viktorovna was thirty-two years younger than him. From two marriages, Fedor Grigoryevich has daughters Tatyana and Elena and a son Grigory.
At the time of death, the outstanding surgeon already had nine grandchildren, as many great-grandchildren, and even two great-great-grandchildren! And he died of a heart attack on June 22, 2008. His remains rest in the Nikolsky cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.