Dmitry Petrovich Kuznetsky (16 September 1875, the settlement of Nizhne-Tagilsky Zavod, Perm Governorate — Gorky) — surgeon-urologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, and founder of the Nizhny Novgorod school of urologists. From 1931 he worked in Gorky, and from 1934 until the end of his life he headed the Department of Faculty Surgery at the Gorky Medical Institute.[1]
Background and Education
Dmitry Petrovich's father was P. V. Kuznetsky, a surgeon well known in the Urals.[2] In 1894, Dmitry Petrovich enrolled in the medical faculty of Moscow University; while still a student he published a scholarly paper, "Amputation Without Vessel Ligation" (journal Vrach, 1898, no. 4).[2] Upon graduating from the university in 1899, he began his medical practice at a zemstvo hospital in his home settlement, working under his father's supervision.[1]
Career Before Moving to Gorky
From September 1903, Kuznetsky worked as a resident physician at the hospital surgical clinic of Professor S. P. Fyodorov in Saint Petersburg.[2] During the Russo-Japanese War he provided surgical care at Red Cross hospitals in the Far East.[1] After the war ended, he went on a six-month research trip to leading clinics in Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Paris.[1]
On returning home, Kuznetsky continued working at Fyodorov's clinic — initially as a supernumerary assistant. In 1911 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Stones of the Kidney and Ureter," which was recognized as a major monograph on the subject.[1] In 1913 he was confirmed as a Privatdozent in clinical surgery at the Military Medical Academy. During the 1913–1914 academic year he lectured on operative surgery and topographic anatomy at the St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute, whose council of professors unanimously elected him professor of the faculty surgical clinic.[2] During the First World War he served as a consulting surgeon at clinics in Minsk, Novozybkov, Zamirye, and Rzhev.[1]
From 1919 to 1921 he was a Privatdozent at the faculty surgical clinic of Tomsk University, and from April 1921 a professor at the hospital surgical clinic of Ural State University in Sverdlovsk.[1] In 1924 he was transferred along with the medical faculty to Perm, where he headed the Department of Faculty Surgery of the combined medical faculty of Perm State University, simultaneously teaching a compulsory course in urology.[2] In May 1927, at the 2nd Congress of Russian Urologists, he was elected president of the congress.[1]
The Gorky Period
At the end of 1931, Kuznetsky moved to Gorky, where he initially worked at the Sormovo. From February 1934 until the end of his life he headed the faculty surgical clinic of the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, based at the clinical hospital of the Water Health Department.[1] Of Kuznetsky's 73 scholarly works, 37 are devoted to urology; it was in Gorky that he completed the formation of the local school of urologists.[1] Over 25 years of professorial work he trained a large number of medical and teaching personnel; several of his students went on to hold positions as professors and associate professors at various medical institutions across the country.[1] For his clinical work and scholarly-pedagogical activities he received a commendation in an order of the Moscow Military District issued by Marshal of the Soviet Union S. M. Budyonny.[1]
Sources
- history.nizhgma.ru — Museum of the History of NizhGMA — View Person
- naupri.ru — On the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Dmitry Petrovich Kuznetsky