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Nikolay Burdenko

1876 - 1946

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Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Николай Нилович Бурденко; 22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944–1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), Colonel General of medical services, and a Stalin Prize winner (1941). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Burdenko has received more than 47,002 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nikolay Burdenko is the 562nd most popular physician (down from 500th in 2019), the 1,736th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,508th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 562 out of 726. Before her are Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Borzuya, Joep Lange, Ludwig Aschoff, Aemilia Hilaria, and Ancel Keys. After her are Carlo Urbani, Gustav Fischer, Bernard Nathanson, Russell M. Nelson, Jean Cruveilhier, and Jacinto Convit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 150. Before her are Felix Jacoby, Walter Burley Griffin, John Marshall, Flora Sandes, Alfred Stock, and Marvin Hart. After her are Gwen John, Harriet Brooks, Stan Rowley, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, and Paul Rivet. Among people deceased in 1946, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 181. Before her are Bill Johnston, Danuta Siedzikówna, Lionel Dunsterville, Harry Edwin Wood, Federigo Enriques, and Alfred Stock. After her are Blanche Bingley, Olivér Halassy, Kate Bruce, Ada Adler, Frank Hadow, and Henry Lehrman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 1,736 out of 3,761. Before her are Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Alexander Fersman (1883), Nikolai Tikhonov (1896), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), and Viktor Zhdanovich (1938). After her are Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Mischa Auer (1905), Sergey Obraztsov (1901), Leonid Sobolev (1844), Vera Panova (1905), and Boris Parygin (1930).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Russia

Among physicians born in Russia, Nikolay Burdenko ranks 8. Before her are Vera Weizmann (1881), Eugene Botkin (1865), Nikolai Korotkov (1874), Vladimir Filatov (1875), Sergey Botkin (1832), and Nikolai Semashko (1874). After her are Arkady Vorobyov (1924), Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov (1875), Nadezhda Suslova (1843), Peter Lesgaft (1837), and Maria Vorontsova (1985).

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