Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko.
During the Great Patriotic War, Burdenko was the chief surgeon of the Red Army (1946-1941), the Hero of Socialist Labor (1943).
Despite his 65 years, he immediately entered the active army, and then took every opportunity to visit the front. He was involved in organizing aid to the wounded during the battles near Yartsevo and Vyazma.
To perform complex operations, Burdenko traveled to regimental and divisional medical battalions and personally performed several thousand operations.
In 1941, Academician Burdenko was hit by a shell for the second time during the bombing while crossing the Neva.
At the end of September 1941, near Moscow, while inspecting a military ambulance train arriving from the front, Nikolai Burdenko suffered a stroke. He stayed in the hospital for about two months, almost completely lost his hearing, and was moved first to Kuibyshev and then to Omsk.
Having not yet recovered from the disease, Burdenko worked in the local hospitals treating the wounded received from the front, and maintained an extensive correspondence with advanced surgeons on the front line.
Died November 11, 1946. The urn with the ashes was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.