Dimitri Pavlovich Golubev

Dimitri P. Golubev
Dimitri P. Golubev
Born	29 September 1906(1906-09-29) Parfenyevo, Kostromskaya gubernia, Russia
Died	5 June 1991(1991-06-05) (aged 84) Yaroslavl
Citizenship	USSR
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Astrakhan Medical School
Notable awards	Hero of Socialist Labour

Dimitri Pavlovich Golubev (Russian: Дмитрий Павлович Голубев) 29 September (O.S. 12 October) 1906 – 5 June 1991 Soviet surgeon Hero of Socialist Labour.

Dimitri Golubev was the thirteenth child in the family of Russian Orthodox archpriest Paul (Pavel) who lived in the village of Parfenevo in the Kologrivski district of the Kostroma province.

Dimitri graduated from the Astrakhan Medical School in 1928. He started his career as a medical doctor in a small district hospital at the Prosnitsa railroad station town (currently in the Kirovskaya oblast). He was the first physician in the region. In two years he was transferred to Kostroma, where he worked as a surgeon at the District hospital. Then he was transferred to Bolshye Soli where he worked for about ten years as the Chief Doctor of the local hospital.

He married Nina Vasilyevna, also a physician who later was awarded the title of Distinguished Medical Doctor of the Russian Federation. Their daughter Galina was born in 1937. She also became a surgeon.

Dr. Golubev served as a military surgeon in the Soviet-Finnish War and the Second World War. His awards for his service were three Orders of the Red Star (autumn 1939, spring 1943 and 1944) and two Orders of the Patriotic War of the Second Degree.

After the end of the Second World War he served about 13 years in Germany and Poland as the Chief Surgeon of the Northern Group of the Soviet Army. He retired from the army with the rank of Colonel. After returning to his homeland in 1962, Dimitri Golubev became the head of the surgical department in a major Yaroslavl hospital. He continued his work until 1977. Dimitri Golubev also served as the Chief Surgeon of the city of Yaroslavl.

For his work after the war Dimitri Golubev was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and he was the only medical doctor in the Yaroslavl Region to be honored with the highest USSR title: Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Dimitri Pavlovich lived 84 years practicing medicine until his last years.

Overall Dimitri Golubev performed more than 12 thousand operations.

A marble memorial plaque honoring the Hero-surgeon Dimitri Pavlovich Golubev was installed on the outside wall of the hospital main building in 2007.

Sources

• В медсанчасти НПЗ открыли мемориальную доску в память о Дмитрии Голубеве. ГТРК «Ярославия», 10.09.2007. (Russian)
• В ярославской больнице установлена мемориальная доска в честь хирурга Дмитрия Голубева. Медицинский вестник, 10.09.2007. (Russian)
• Archive photographs

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Name	Golubev, Dimitri Pavlovich
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Date of birth	29 September 1906
Place of birth	Parfenyevo, Kostromskaya gubernia, Russia
Date of death	5 June 1991
Place of death	Yaroslavl