When I was allowed to remove the bandages, I began to open my eyes and saw the world — alive! It was real, close and bright — not fenced off by glasses. I was shocked. I wore glasses since childhood, and took them off only after an operation at the Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery Academician Fedorov. I am simply grateful to him.
Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Fedorov is a hardworking ophthalmologist who has performed thousands of successful eye surgeries.
Applause, but in Russia there are many doctors dedicated to their work.
Svyatoslav Fedorov is an inventor. 234 inventions, 108 patents.
Admiration, but the Russian land has always been rich in talents.
S. N. Fedorov is a public figure: Chairman of the Board of the All-Russian Scientific Society of Ophthalmologists, Editor-in-Chief of the Ophthalmosurgery journal, member of the editorial boards of the Ophthalmology Bulletin (USA), the American Society of Implantologists, Refractive Surgery (USA), Novosti Eye Surgery (USA), European Journal of Implantation and Refractive Surgery, President of the International Society of Keratorefractologists, Honorary Member of the International Society for Artificial Lens Implantation, Member of the International Society for Phacoemulsification and Cataract Surgery, Honorary Member of the International Society for Corneoplastic Microsurgery, Member of the European Society of Surgery cataract and refractive surgery.
Worthy, but where did he get the time for this?
Academician Fedorov is a scientist, author of 523 scientific papers and 7 monographs. Under his leadership, 86 candidate and 25 doctoral dissertations were completed and successfully defended.
Respect, but what is this science to us?
Stop: here is the error. The science that Svyatoslav Nikolayevich was doing restored people’s sight: it returned it when nothing else helped. According to the methods developed by him, since 1975, about 2 million artificial lenses are implanted per year. The eye did not see: the eye began to see.
Fedorov is a man who breaks the system. In 1961, when S. N. Fedorov headed the problematic laboratory for the implantation of an artificial lens, no one believed in this direction. Ophthalmologists from different countries, after unsuccessful attempts to use an artificial lens, began to abandon this practice. Congresses of eye surgeons, printed publications were full of speeches with harsh criticism of the very idea of the possible use of an artificial lens in surgical practice. Fedorov went against these congresses, developed successful methods, performed 200 successful operations and a report that turned the situation in the medical world upside down.
Breaking the system of the Soviet bureaucracy, having gone to the first persons in the Soviet government, the entrepreneur Fedorov organized the production of artificial lenses in those stagnant years. And this already goes beyond the usual work of a doctor and the format of scientific activity. He created the only and inimitable Eye Microsurgery Complex in the world, introduced a team method of work, a rental contract, mobile operating rooms with a diagnostic complex of equipment based on a bus, motor ship, railway car; diagnostic and surgical pipelines with extensive use of modern computer technology.
In those years. Who lived then, he will appreciate …
Fedorov is the man who created the system. Branches of the Eye Microsurgery Center in 11 large industrial cities of Russia, a team of co-developers, training of specialists, production of laser systems … Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Fedorov crashed in a helicopter on June 2, 2000, but the system he created could already work independently. He managed to leave this life along with his slogan: “Beautiful eyes for everyone!”
Who does not know — he was disabled. Even in his youth, he lost his leg.
He lived a bold, beautiful—simple and correct—life.