Thanks to the prophylactic orientation of Soviet medicine, many common diseases were under the strict control of the medical community. A great contribution to the development of cardiology was made by the great Soviet doctor Pavel Evgenievich Lukomsky, a scientist and talented organizer, author of many authoritative works on the problems of heart and vascular diseases.
Biography
Pavel Evgenievich Lukomsky was born on July 23, 1899 in a small village near the Belarusian city of Grodno. After graduating from school, Pavel Evgenievich moved with his father to Moscow, where he entered the State Medical University. After receiving a medical education in 1923, the future professor decides to engage in teaching and remains in a medical educational institution, where for three years he becomes the head of the department of therapy. Here, for the first time in 1938, he establishes the significance of changes in the electrocardiogram for cardiovascular diseases.
In 1943, Pavel Evgenievich Lukomsky defended with honors a doctoral dissertation on the problems of diagnosis and treatment of myocardial infarction. In the same year, the professor was sent to the Urals in the city of Chelyabinsk, where for five years he successfully headed the hospital and the department of cardiology at the local institute. Upon returning to Moscow, Pavel Evgenievich again takes his place at the Faculty of Cardiology. Since 1949, he transferred to the Ministry of Health, as chief physician, while simultaneously fulfilling his duties at the Department of Hospital Therapy of the Medical University in Moscow.
