103 years of legend! Today is the birthday of an honorary citizen of Samara, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, one of the most qualified and experienced pathologists in the region, Lev Semanovich Onofrev. His path is a story of incredible perseverance: after school he entered the Leningrad Medical Center. I studied for a year and went to the conscription. Three days before the siege, an order arrived to send the recruit to Omsk. Further on is the formation point of the division near Moscow and the 3rd Belorussian Front. He met the victory in East Prussia. And after the war he finished his studies at the Academy of Naval Medicine. In 1956 he was appointed to the Kuibyshev Air Defense Hospital, where he served as the district's chief pathologist. From 1971 to 2006 - 35 years! - Lev Semanovich gave to the Samara Oncology Center, and became a mentor to hundreds of doctors. He took off the cloak only at the age of 87. Good health to our hero! Low bow, Lev Semanovich. Photo: Svetlana Osmachkina; Samara City Hall.

103 years of legend! Today is the birthday of an honorary citizen of Samara, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, one of the most qualified and experienced pathologists in the region, Lev Semanovich Onofrev. His path is a story of incredible perseverance: after school he entered the Leningrad Medical Center. I studied for a year and went to the conscription. Three days before the siege, an order arrived to send the recruit to Omsk. Further on is the formation point of the division near Moscow and the 3rd Belorussian Front. He met the victory in East Prussia. And after the war he finished his studies at the Academy of Naval Medicine. In 1956 he was appointed to the Kuibyshev Air Defense Hospital, where he served as the district's chief pathologist. From 1971 to 2006 - 35 years! - Lev Semanovich gave to the Samara Oncology Center, and became a mentor to hundreds of doctors. He took off the cloak only at the age of 87. Good health to our hero! Low bow, Lev Semanovich. Photo: Svetlana Osmachkina; Samara City Hall.