On November 29, a stamp devoted of Fyodor Uglov, a surgeon, a writer, a public figure, a professor, was put into postal circulation

Fyodor Uglov (1904-2008) was a Soviet and Russian surgeon, an academician and a public figure.

Fyodor Uglov was born on September 22 (October 5), 1904, in the village of Chuguevo of the Irkutsk Province. He was educated at the Medical Faculty of the Saratov State University. After graduation in 1929, he worked in various medical facilities of the country. He was a military doctor, a surgeon of a medical-sanitary battalion, and during the Great Patriotic War, he was the head of the surgical department of a military hospital.

Since 1950, F. Uglov headed the Department of Hospital Surgery in the Pavlov First Medical Institute. He performed above 6,500 surgeries unique in the surgical practice.

F. Uglov was one of the first in the country to perform successfully the most complex operations on the esophagus, mediastinum, on portal hypertension and pancreatic adenoma, on lung diseases, on congenital and acquired valvular defects and aortic aneurysm. On April 8, 1946, for the first time in the USSR, he successfully performed a surgery operation of elimination of two lobes of the right lung. He was the first in the world to invent a new incision for heart surgery, which permits only to fold back temporarily the chest wall protecting the heart to expose the organ instead of its extraction. He is the author of invention Artificial heart valve and method for making it.

In 1974, F. Uglov's first fiction book The Surgeon's Heart was published. He also wrote such books as Enthralled by Illusions, Suiciders, Lomechusas, A Trap for Russia, A Century is not enough for a Human, Truth and Lies about Authorized Drugs.

In 1994, he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest practicing surgeon in the history of medicine.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Fyodor Uglov against the background of an operation being staged under his guidance.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk.


Design Artist: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 72 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×137 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 63 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).

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