“This is a heavy, irreparable loss for family and friends, for our country and the entire world medicine.
An outstanding physician and scientist, Evgeny Ivanovich devoted his whole life to caring for the health of people and always brilliantly performed his professional duties.
He became the founder of his own scientific school and made a colossal contribution to the development of cardiology, ”TASS quotes the text of Medvedev's telegram.
Earlier it was reported that Chazov died at the age of 92.
The Ministry of Health noted that "the bold scientific developments of the academician on the treatment of patients with heart attacks, new approaches to the therapy of thrombosis were widely used in Russia, Europe and the United States."