Academician Lev Konstantinovich Bogush (1905-1994) (on the 115th anniversary of the birthday)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the 115th anniversary of the birth of L. K. Bogush. Lev Konstantinovich was born on March 3, 1905 in the family of the famous Nizhny Novgorod surgeon Konstantin Fedorovich Bogush. The industriousness, high capacity for work, dedication to science and the talent of Lev Konstantinovich for a short time bore fruit. In 1939, Lev Konstantinovich was one of the first in the country to remove a lung lobe due to suppurating bronchiectasis. In 1943, Lev Konstantinovich defended his doctoral dissertation «Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by ligation of pulmonary lobar veins». In 1961, L. K. Bogush, together with professors B. V. Petrovsky, N. M. Amosov, F. G. Uglov and V. I. Struchkov, was awarded the Lenin Prize for the development of lung operations. On October 5, 1994, after a long-term illness, Lev Konstantinovich died and was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery in Moscow.

Keywords

• history
• surgery
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• lungs
• lev konstantinovich bogush