Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Infobox Medical Person
name = Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov


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caption = Svyatoslav Fyodorov
birth_date = August 8,1927
birth_place = Proskurov, Ukrainian SSR
death_date = death date and age|2000|06|02|1927|08|08
death_place = Moscow, Russia
profession = Surgeon and Politician
specialism = Ophthalmology, Eye surgery,
research_field = radial keratotomy
intraocular lens replacement
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known_for = Creating radial keratotomy
education = Rostov Medical Institute
work_institutions = Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery
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Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov (Russian: "Святослав Николаевич Фёдоров"; born August 8, 1927 – June 2, 2000) was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial keratotomy, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician.

Fyodorov was born in "Proskurov", Ukrainian SSR (now Khmelnytskyy, Ukraine), to ethnic Russian parents. Graduated from Rostov Medical Institute, then worked as a practicing ophthalmologist in a small town in Rostov Oblast. In 1960 he performed the first in the Soviet Union intraocular lens replacement operation. In 1980 he became a head of "Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery".

Fyodorov was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies in 1989-1991. He was elected to the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, in 1993. He ran for president in 1996.

Returning from an academic conference in 2000, Fyodorov died in the crash of his clinic's four-seater helicopter on the outskirts of Moscow.