10 Facts About Nikolai Korotkov

Nikolai Korotkov was born to a merchant family at 40 Milenskaia Street in Kursk on February 26,1874.

Nikolai Korotkov entered the medical faculty of Kharkiv University in 1893 and transferred to Moscow University in 1895, where he graduated with distinction in 1898.

Nikolai Korotkov was appointed resident intern to professor Alexander Bobrov at the surgical clinic of Moscow University.

Nikolai Korotkov was honoured with the Order of St Anna for "outstandingly zealous labours in helping the sick and wounded soldiers".

On his return Nikolai Korotkov turned his mind from military to academic pursuits and translated Eduard Albert's monograph "Die Chirurgische Diagnostik" from German to Russian.

In 1903, Sergey Fedorov was appointed professor of surgery at the Military Medical Academy at St Petersburg, and he invited Nikolai Korotkov to join him as assistant surgeon.

Nikolai Korotkov became interested in vascular surgery and began to collect cases for his doctoral thesis, which included 41 of 44 case reports of patients who were part of his war experience in the hospital at Harbin.

The critical comments of Nikolai Korotkov's peers were dealt with in an adroit manner, and he appeared a month later at the Imperial Military Academy with animal experiments to support his theory that the sounds he had described were produced locally, rather than in the heart.

Nikolai Korotkov, then serving as research physician to the mining district of Vitimsko-Olekminsky in Siberia, received his doctorate in 1910.

Nikolai Korotkov welcomed the October Revolution after which he was physician-in-chief of the Mechnikov Hospital in Petrograd until his death from lung tuberculosis on March 14,1920.