Professor Victor P. Odintsov is the Founder and the First Director of Ufa Eye Research Institute Bashkir State University

Abstract

Professor V. Odintsov is a surgeon, researcher, teacher and organizer who made an enormous contribution to the development of country and world ophthalmology. In 1925, V. Odintsov was invited to Ufa for the management of Eye Infirmary and became the founder of the Bashkir Trachomatous Research Institute which was the centre of elimination trachoma in the republic. The development of the ophthalmology in the republic of Bashkortostan is connected with his name.

Keywords

• v. odintsov
• bashkir trachomatous institute
• first moscow medical institute
• md
• director
• the head of department
• ophthalmology
• trachoma