- Fyodor Uglov
Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov (Russian: Фёдор Григорьевич Углов;
22 September 1904 –22 June 2008 ) was in 1994 listed in theGuinness Book of Records as the oldest practicingsurgeon in the world. [http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080624/NEWS07/806240336]Uglov was born in a peasant family in
Siberia nearLake Baikal . Having matriculated from theSaratov State University in 1929, he later settled inLeningrad , where he saved lives of soldiers wounded during theWinter War . He worked as a surgeon in the besieged Leningrad throughout its epic 900-day siege by the Germans, "performing surgery – often without anaesthetic, electricity or water – as the bombs rained all around". [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2195041/Fyodor-Uglov.html]Uglov gained a measure of renown in the 1970s with a series of publications and tracts campaigning against
alcoholism (e.g., "Suicides"). He was on the cutting edge ofMikhail Gorbachev 's ill-fated prohibition campaign, touring the country with his lectures and winning aLenin Prize for his activities. At the age of 60 he married a woman half his age. Uglov did not retire from medical practice until the age of 102. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2195041/Fyodor-Uglov.html]References
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2195041/Fyodor-Uglov.html Obituary in The Daily Telegraph]
* [http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=26344 Obituary in The St. Petersburg Times]External link
* [http://www.uglov.ru/ Official website] ru icon
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