Academician Anatoly Panteleimonovich Kolesov (1924–1987) (on the 100th anniversary of his birth)

An outstanding Russian scientist, a major specialist in the field of thoracic and cardiac surgery, Anatoly Panteleimonovich Kolesov was born on July 5, 1924 in Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude). In 1941, he graduated with honors from school ¹ 15 in Kiev. With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered for the Western Front, where he served as an interpreter for the intelligence department until 1942. In 1942, he was sent to study at the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, which he graduated with a gold medal in 1947. After graduating from the Academy, he was enrolled in the postgraduate program at the Department of Faculty Surgery ¹ 2. In 1950, he defended his candidate’s dissertation «The Origin, the Development, and the Recognition of Some Forms of Bronchiectasis». In 1951, he was sent on a business trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. In 1956, he defended his doctoral dissertation «Some Issues of Treating Gunshot Fractures with the Use of Antibiotics». In USSR, he was one of the first to perform economical lung resections (including bilateral ones) for bronchiectasis, heart surgery under hypothermia, and then artificial circulation. From 1963 to 1986, he headed the Department of Surgery for Advanced Medical Studies ¹ 1, which was named after P. A. Kupriyanov in 1965. During his leadership, the department became one of the leading medical institutions in the country for the treatment of cardiac surgery patients. Anatoly Panteleimonovich Kolesov died on June 17, 1987 and was buried at the Bogoslovskoye Cemetery in Leningrad. In memory of this outstanding scientist, a memorial plaque was installed on the wall of the clinic where he worked in 1988.