Yurii Vilensky

The creative group of Serhii Lysenko plans to finish the work on the movie before December 2013 when the centennial of Mykola Amosov will be marked. The date has been included in the UNESCO calendar.Serhii Lysenko, a graduate of the Dnipropetrovsk University and Karpenko-Kary Institute, belongs to...

Mykola Tronko, director of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, was recently decorated in Japan with the international peace memorial medal named after Dr. Nagai, who suffered from the 1945 nuclear apocalypse in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and...

The buildings of the National Cancer Institute in Lomonosov Street in Kyiv… There is a mosaic with the symbolic figure of a doctor destroying the hydra of this pernicious disease with a spectrum of incinerating rays. It aims to convey the spirit and essence of the fight taking place at the...

Blessed be Tashkent, a city that is called a breadbasket even in times of civil unrest! Yet one’s daily bread has to be earned. Perhaps for this reason, the 15-year-old schoolboy Tolia Pozmogov, who had taken some lessons from his father, the wonderful clockmaker and brilliant mechanic Ivan...

In 1947 a doctoral thesis, which stood out by its liberal approach in the post-war asceticism, was suggested for the consideration of the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of the USSR — at that time an institution of strict bureaucratic norms. It was the hand-written research of...

On the 12th of May they recorded 114 cases of typhus, on the 13th there were 170 new cases. By the 15th of May, the number of victims had reached 200. These figures show the number of typhus cases that appeared after releasing the inmates of Terezin, a former concentration camp located near...

Mykola Amosov would have been 95 last Saturday. When it was still October, it suddenly occurred to me that I need to describe the talented medicine reformer’s professional and human traits through the eyes of Prof. Vasyl Bratus, a well-known surgeon, ex-minister of public health for two terms, and...

The abode of thought: this philosophical image of the human brain suggests something lofty and unfathomable. But from the standpoint of medical treatment, the brain is a vulnerable element. Cerebral strokes are among the most widespread illnesses in the world. Only in the last few decades have...

The UT-1 National Television Company’s documentary studios have completed work on a new film entitled Mykola Amosov: Thoughts and the Heart, which will soon air on television. “There is no village without a righteous man” is the hallmark and image of Mykola Mykhailovych Amosov. He was an ordinary...