On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Vadim Ivanovich Mazurov

Vadim Ivanovich Mazurov is an outstanding Russian clinician, therapist, and rheumatologist. He is a recognized scientific authority who has made a major contribution to the development of science and training of scientific and pedagogical personnel, becoming a Teacher for many doctors. He is widely known in Russia and abroad as a clinical scientist who made a huge contribution to the development of domestic therapy and rheumatology. He is the initiator of annual conferences of rheumatologists of the North-West in St. Petersburg, as well as the chairman and co-chairman of the organizing committees of a number of major therapeutic and rheumatology congresses. Vadim Ivanovich Mazurov is a man of broad soul and great charm, who has authority among the medical community of St. Petersburg and Russia.