List of Russian physicians and psychologists

A

• cardiovascular surgery developer, best-selling author

B

• Aleksandr Bakulev, prominent cardiovascular surgery developer
• Bekhterev’s Disease
• Betz cells of primary motor cortex
• Oriental sore
• Sergey Botkin, major therapist and court physician
• Nikolay Burdenko, major developer of neurosurgery
• Konstantin Buteyko, developed the Buteyko method for the treatment of asthma and other breathing disorders

C

• Mikhail Chumakov, co-discovered tick-borne encephalitis, co-developed oral polio vaccine

D

• neurologist, described the nucleus of posterior commissure
• transplantology

• ophthalmologist, corneal transplantation
  pioneer
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov, inventor of radial keratotomy

G

• Pyotr Gannushkin, psychiatrist, pioneer researcher of psychopathies known today as personality disorders
• space dog
• antibiotics
• Vera Gedroitz, world's first female professor of surgery
• Hans-Werner Gessmann, one of the world's most famous professor of clinical psychology, founder of humanistic psychodrama psychotherapy
• Yuliya Gippenreyter, researcher in experimental psychology, family therapy and neuro-linguistic programming
• vocal folds are the source of phonation

• Waldemar Haffkine, invented the first vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague

I

• Gavriil Ilizarov, invented Ilizarov apparatus, developed distraction osteogenesis

K

• auscultatory blood pressure measurement, pioneer of vascular surgery
• Korsakoff's syndrome, introduced paranoia
  concept
• Aleksei Kozhevnikov, neurologist and psychiatrist, described the epilepsia partialis continua

L

• Aleksey Leontyev, founder of activity theory
  in psychology
• Peter Lesgaft, founder of the modern system of physical education in Russia
• Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko
  , adolescent psychiatrist
• Alexander Luria, co-developer of activity theory and cultural-historical psychology, major researcher of aphasia

M

• Second World War
  .
• Nobel Prize in Medicine
  winner
• Lazar Minor, neurologist, described Minor's disease

N

• dermatologist, discoverer of Nikolsky's sign
• spiral arteries
  which connect the uterine and placental blood flow during pregnancy.

• Ivan Pavlov, founder of modern physiology, the first to research classical conditioning, influenced comparative psychology and behaviorism by his works on reflexes, Nobel Prize in Medicine winner
• field surgery
  , the first to perform anaesthesia in the field conditions, invented a number of surgical operations
• Viktor Protopopov, founder of his own pathophysiological school of thought, namesake of Protopopov's syndrome

• Leonid Rogozov, performed an appendectomy on himself during the 6th Soviet Antarctic Expedition, a famous case of self-surgery
• Grigory Rossolimo, pioneer of child neuropsychology
• neuropathologist, described meralgia paraesthetica

S

• Ivan Sechenov, founder of electrophysiology and neurophysiology, author of the classic work Reflexes of the Brain
• Vladimir Serbsky, founder of forensic psychiatry in Russia
• field surgeon
• prosthetic heart valve)^[2]
• Lina Stern, pioneer researcher of blood–brain barrier

U

• Fyodor Uglov, oldest practicing surgeon in history
• tuberculosis therapy

V

• Alexander Varshavsky, researched ubiquitination, Wolf Prize in Medicine winner
• Vikenty Veresayev, Russian/Soviet doctor, author of Memoirs of a Physician^[3]
• purulent
  surgery, saint
• Lev Vygotsky, founder of cultural-historical psychology, major contributor to child development and psycholinguistics, introduced zone of proximal development and cultural mediation concepts

W

• Josias Weitbrecht, first to describe the construction and function of intervertebral discs

Y

• Sergei Yudin, inventor of cadaveric blood transfusion

Z

• Kharkov School of Psychology
• Bluma Zeigarnik, psychiatrist, discovered the Zeigarnik effect, founded experimental psychopathology

See also

• List of physicians
• Psychiatry in the Soviet Union
• List of Russian scientists
• List of Russian inventors
• Science and technology in Russia

References