On March 11, a postage stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Nikolai Burdenko, a surgeon, a healthcare organizer, and the founder of neurosurgery was put into postal circulation

Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946) was a Chief Surgeon of the Red Army, an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, a Colonel General of the Medical Service.

With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Nikolai Burdenko volunteered for the military medical corps. He graduated from Yuryev University in 1906. From 1907, he worked as a surgeon at the Penza Provincial Hospital. From 1910, he was a professor in the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of Yuryev University.

In March of 1917, Nikolai Burdenko was appointed acting chief military medical inspector of the Russian army, and in May, chief field military medical inspector. From 1923, he was a professor at the medical faculty of Moscow University, where he headed a surgical clinic of the faculty, presently named after him, until the end of his life. From 1929, N. Burdenko was the Director of the neurosurgical clinic at the Röntgen Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR.

In 1937, he was appointed Chief Consultant Surgeon at the Military Medical Administration of the Red Army. On August 1 of 1941, N. Burdenko was drafted into the Red Army and appointed Chief Surgeon.

The name of N. Burdenko is borne by the Research Institute of Neurosurgery in Moscow, the Main Military Hospital of the Ministry of Defense, and other medical institutions in Russia.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Nikolai Burdenko against the backdrop of a photograph from the operating room.

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


Design Artist: Kh. Betredinova.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×137 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 85.5 thousand stamps (9.5 thousand sheets).

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