Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov
Born	August 8, 1927 Proskurov, Ukrainian SSR
Died	June 2, 2000(2000-06-02) (aged 72) Moscow, Russia
Education	Rostov Medical Institute
Known for	Creating radial keratotomy
Profession	Surgeon and Politician
Institutions	Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery
Specialism	Ophthalmology, Eye surgery,
Research	radial keratotomy intraocular lens replacement

Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov (Russian: Святослав Николаевич Фёдоров; born August 8, 1927 – June 2, 2000) was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician. He is known as the creator of radial keratotomy.

Life and career

Fyodorov was born in Proskurov, Ukrainian SSR (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), to ethnic Russian parents.

Fyodorov graduated from Rostov Medical Institute, then worked as a practicing ophthalmologist in a small town in Rostov Oblast.

In 1960 he performed the first intraocular lens replacement operation in the Soviet Union.

In 1980 he became the head of the Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery.

Fyodorov was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies in 1989-1991. He was elected to the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, in 1993. He ran for president in 1996.

Death

Returning from an academic conference in 2000, Fyodorov died in the crash of his clinic's four-seater helicopter on the outskirts of Moscow.