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Nikolai Amosov was a Ukrainian and Soviet cardiologist, surgeon, educator, and author.
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He was a pioneer of Russian open-heart surgery whose groundbreaking work with artificial heart valves and related surgical procedures earned him some of the former Soviet Union's most prestigious honors.
Background
Nikolai Amosov was born on December 6, 1913, in Olkhova, a small village near the town of Cherepovets.
Nikolai's mother, Elizaveta Kirillovna, was a local midwife. His father, a soldier in the First World War, returned from German captivity in 1919.
Ukraine flagLater, he left his family for another woman and Amosov never forgave him.
Education
Amosov finished elementary school in his native village.
In 1926, he entered the "second-level" school (Cherepovets middle school #1), and later the Lumber-mechanical technical college in Cherepovets.
In 1932, he graduated with a