"Talent and boundless dedication": surgeon Valery Shumakov was born 90 years ago
2021-11-09T06:48:09.053Z
On November 9, 1931, Soviet and Russian cardiac surgeon Valery Shumakov was born. He was one of the founders of Russian transplantology and performed the first successful heart transplant operation in the USSR. According to experts, the techniques he developed brought Soviet surgery to a new level of development and are still used by Russian doctors.
Source: russiart