Nikolay Sklifosovsky

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Nikolay Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky
Sklifosovsky in 1899
Born	(1836-03-25)25 March 1836 Dubăsari, Russian Empire
Died	30 November 1904(1904-11-30) (aged 68) near Poltava, Russian Empire
Education	Doctor of Science (1863)
Alma mater	Imperial Moscow University (1859)
Known for	first application of the aseptic method in surgery; first use of local anesthesia
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine
Institutions	Imperial Moscow University
Thesis	About the bloody periutrical tumor (О кровяной околоматочной опухоли)

Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (Russian: Николай Васильевич Склифосовский; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1836 — 13 December [O.S. 30 November] 1904) was a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Moldavian origin. He was born near the town of Dubasari, which is now in Transnistria. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg, Kiev, and Moscow. He was a founder of the «Clinical Town» at Devichye Pole.

Legacy

Young Sklifosovsky on a 2012 stamp of Transnistria

The Moscow Institute of Emergency First Aid, often abbreviated as Sklif, has borne his name since 1923.

In 1870, on the recommendation of Pirogov, another prominent Russian surgeon, Sklifosovsky was invited to head the department of surgery at Kyiv University. However, he did not stay in Kyiv for long: soon he went to war again, this time to the theater of the Franco-Prussian war.

About 10,000 wounded passed through Sklifosovskyi. The doctors and nurses, among whom was the surgeon's wife Sofya Oleksandrivna, supported Mykola Vasyliovych's strength by occasionally pouring a few sips of wine into his mouth between separate operations.

In 2001 the Central Bank of Transnistria arranged for the minting of a silver coin featuring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of commemorative coins honoring The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.