Scientist and doctor Galina Mikhailovna Savelyeva in 2018 celebrated her ninety-year anniversary. But, looking at this charming woman, who still continues to work at the RNIMU them. Pirogov, it is difficult to imagine her age. Galina Mikhailovna is one of the oldest practicing obstetrician-gynecologists in Russia. To this day, colleagues and patients turn to her for advice, so the doctor’s work schedule, as before, is scheduled in minutes.
early years
Gynecologist Galina Savelyeva was born in the village of Kuvaka, Penza province, February 23, 1928. Her father, Mikhail Kuzmich Tantsyrev, was an oil engineer, and her mother, Maria Tikhonovna Tantsyreva, was a teacher. Galina’s childhood passed in Syzran, where her father was sent to work.
At first, the girl did not dream about a medical career, but wanted to become a teacher. Aloud, she read textbooks to dolls, which were her imaginary students. It was an interesting gameplay. But soon the schoolgirl had a new hobby. During the war years, during the summer holidays, Galina went to work as a laboratory assistant in the hospital. She needed to carry out medical instructions and make dressings for the wounded.
Once a girl came to the operating room to watch the progress of the operation. Unlike other assistants, who became ill from what they saw, Galya was not afraid. After that, she was taken to work in the laboratory. There she took blood for research and counted its elements under a microscope. It was then that Savelyeva was firmly convinced of her own destiny, and she decided to become a doctor.
Education
Galina Mikhailovna graduated from school in Moscow, where her dad was transferred to work. She was almost an excellent pupil - in the certificate there was only one four. The girl for a long time could not decide in which of the medical universities of the capital she should go. On the advice of a friend, she submitted documents to the Second Medical Institute, successfully passed the entrance exams and in 1946 became a student.
Galina really liked the learning process. At the institute, she not only met true friends, but also met her future husband, with whom she subsequently lived in marriage for more than sixty years. In the fourth year, Savelyeva enrolled in a surgery circle, but then she became interested in obstetrics and decided that she would be a gynecologist.
In 1951, Galina entered the residency of the Second Medical Institute on the basis of the First City Hospital. There were no places in her specialty, and I had to study at the department of nervous diseases. For a month, the girl was engaged in neurology, until a professor accidentally saw her, to whom she went to a gynecological circle. He helped Savelyeva, and soon she was transferred to the department of obstetrics and gynecology.
Medical career
In 1954, Galina Mikhailovna graduated from the residency. Almost immediately after that, she was offered the position of head of the road block at the First City Hospital. Savelyev herself recalls that it was not easy to work then. Women in labor often had complications, since there was no diagnostic equipment, they did not even do an ultrasound.
In 1960, the doctor’s career continued at the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute named after N.I. Pirogov, where she came to work as an assistant in the obstetric and gynecological department. From 1965 to 1968 was an assistant professor at this department. In 1968 she defended her doctoral dissertation, after which she received the post of professor. A year later, she became head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology in the evening department. In 1974 she became the head of the department at the pediatric faculty.
From 1971 to 1991 Galina Mikhailovna Savelyeva led the All-Union Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. For many years she took part in the global movement of doctors against nuclear war. In 1988, she became a full member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1991, she received the position of vice president of the Association of Obstetrician-Gynecologists of Russia. In the same year, in Moscow, under her leadership, the European Congress was held, which was attended by 1,500 domestic and foreign specialists in the field of gynecology.
The most significant studies
Over the years at the Institute. Pirogova Galina Mikhailovna Savelyeva formed her own scientific school, which later became the leader in the Russian Federation and received a grant from the president of the country. The main developments of the department were carried out in the field of pediatric gynecology, resuscitation and intensive care of newborns born in asphyxia, endoscopy.
Galina Mikhailovna is one of the creators of perinatology, a new clinical discipline whose goal is to reduce the mortality and morbidity of children associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Over the years, she studied the indicators characterizing the metabolism of the newborn and the fetus, and revealed the direction of its changes in oxygen deficiency.
Of great practical importance were the work on the coagulation and rheological properties of blood in a newborn and mother, as well as on monitoring the hormonal status of pregnant women.
USSR State Prize
In 1986, Galina Mikhailovna Savelyeva was awarded the highest award in the country for developing a system of resuscitation in newborns born in asphyxia. Under the supervision of Academician Leonid Semenovich Persianinov, she studied the condition of the fetus on special equipment that records cardiac activity. Then this was a breakthrough, because earlier they listened to the heartbeat with a tube. Then Savelyeva and several other experts began to study the biochemical acid-base indicators of the fetus, which were also among the first in the USSR.
These fundamental studies made a significant contribution to the study of the mechanism of development of hypoxia in newborns and allowed to develop a system for resuscitation of children with suffocation.
Other achievements
Another achievement of Galina Mikhailovna was the introduction of operative and diagnostic endoscopy in the treatment of gynecological patients. Her 1983 monograph Endoscopy in Gynecology has become a reference book for all specialists in this field. For a series of works on this topic in 2001, Professor Savelyeva was awarded the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Galina Mikhailovna received another government award for the development and implementation of endovascular surgery in order to restore and maintain the reproductive health of women. She found a way to stop the bleeding when removal of the uterus was required for any indication.
Scientific and teaching work
In total, Savelyeva is the author of more than 550 scientific works, the most significant of which are the monographs “Resuscitation of newborns”, Obstetric hospital, “Endoscopy in gynecology”, “Placental insufficiency”, “Laparoscopy in gynecology”, “Hysteroscopy”, as well as textbooks "Gynecology" and "Obstetrics."
For more than thirty years, Galina Mikhailovna led the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical Institute. Pirogov. About eight hundred students, as well as twenty to thirty graduate students and residents, studied with her annually. A talented teacher trained 37 doctors and 125 candidates of science, who are now successfully working not only in Russian, but also in many leading foreign clinics.
The teacher is also a student
Savelyeva notes that she always perceived and perceives her students as friends. She never felt the difference in age and betrayed the significance that she was much older than them. Today, the wards of Galina Mikhailovna are mature and worthy people, whom she often turns to for advice.
Among the famous students of the doctor is Valentina Breusenko, one of the leading experts in the field of hysteroscopy, which is a minimally invasive method for examining the uterus with a hysteroscope. Her other pupil, Raisa Ivanovna Shalina, is considered a highly qualified obstetrician who specializes in preterm birth. Another former student, Lali Grigorievna Sichinava, has received great fame abroad, is now dealing with the problem of multiple pregnancy.
Especially among his students, Galina Mikhailovna distinguishes Mark Arkadyevich Kurtser, who replaced her as head of the department. For a long time he was the chief obstetrician-gynecologist of Moscow, made many important innovations that saved the lives of hundreds of women.
Awards and titles
For her many years of medical practice, Savelyeva received many honorary titles and government awards. She is the owner of the Orders of Friendship, “Badge of Honor”, “For Merit to the Fatherland”. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and two Prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation. In 2003, she gained the title of Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation and was awarded the medal "For Merit to Domestic Health Care".
In 2012 she received the prize of the “Formula of Life” festival in the nomination “Honor and Dignity”. In 2013, she became an academician of the RAMS and RAS. In 2015, she was awarded the Reproductive Tomorrow of Russia Prize in the Light Bearing nomination. In 2018, she was awarded the distinction "For Services to Moscow". In the same year she received the title of Hero of Labor for her special services to the people and the state.
Galina Mikhailovna Savelyeva, in addition to the above, has other awards. She is the owner of the VDNKh Silver Medal, prizes of V.F. Snegirev and V.S. Gruzdev, and many honorary government diplomas.
Personal life
While studying at the Second Medical Institute, Galina met with Viktor Savelyev. He studied in another group and dreamed of becoming a surgeon. For a long time, the young man tried to attract the girl's attention: he sat down nearby at lectures, helped with exams. At first, Galina believed that Victor was too simple for her, because she was from an intelligent family, and he was an ordinary guy from Tambov. But later Savelyev was able to charm the girl with his charm and wit. It was Victor who enrolled Galina in the surgery circle, but then he asked her to choose a different direction, since "two surgeons in the house are not needed."
Lovers married to graduation - in 1950. In 1959, the couple had a son, Sergei. Throughout their lives, the couple engaged in scientific and practical activities, and each managed to make a dizzying career: his wife in gynecology, her husband in surgery. In 2013, Viktor Sergeyevich died. Galina Mikhailovna found solace in communicating with her grandchildren and raising her great-grandchildren.
Currently
Now Savelyeva no longer heads the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but she is an Honorary Professor and continues to work, as in the previous thirty years. He gives lectures to doctors, prepares a lot of scientific papers. In 2018, she was reprinting a textbook on obstetrics. According to the doctor himself, her work did not decrease: all the same, patients with gynecological pathologies are brought to her, her colleagues turn for consultations on obstetric issues.
Galina Mikhailovna says that, despite the development of progress and technology, today women have the same problems in the field of obstetrics and gynecology that they had before. Many have difficulty conceiving and bearing children. Now her activity is aimed at studying the fundamentals of the occurrence of certain gynecological diseases.
Probably, it will be another years before doctors learn to correct the genome and remove defects before they become irreversible. But Savelyeva has no doubt that soon drugs will be created that have the ability to act at the subcellular level; regenerative technologies will appear, which we can only dream of today. And this will be, among other things, her merit!