Ivan Ivanovich Benediktov: man, teacher, mentor, friend

Abstract

Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sverdlovsk State Medical Institute Ivan Ivanovich Benediktov was born on November 1, 1916 in the Ulyanovsk region. After graduating from the Tomsk Medical Institute, I.I. Benediktov began working as a surgeon in a rural hospital in the Tomsk region. In 1942, he was drafted into the Red Army and went through the entire war as a military surgeon, being the commander of a medical battalion and being on the front line, providing medical care in the most difficult conditions of wartime. After the war, I.I. Benediktov returned to civilian life and mastered the most peaceful medical specialty — obstetrics and gynecology. I.I. Benediktov became not only an outstanding doctor, but also a professor, head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sverdlovsk State Medical Institute, founder of the scientific school of gynecological endocrinology and obstetrics in the Urals. During the years of head of the department, under the leadership of I.I. Benediktov, 12 doctoral and 80 candidate dissertations were defended, more than 30 scientific collections, monographs, and methodological manuals were published.