Nikolai Amosov Biography

The biography of N. Amosov, the year all the ancestors were peasants. Born on December 6th. Mom was a midwife in the northern village, not far from the city of Cherepovets. Father went to war in, and when he returned, he soon left his family. They lived very scarce: my mother did not take gifts from patients. So she remained for me an example for life. Grandma taught to pray, peasant farming - to work, and loneliness - read books.

When he became a pioneer, he stopped believing in God and found out about socialism. However, the party career on the pioneers ended - he was neither in the Komsomol nor in the party. The life of the Russian northern village has known since childhood. From 12 to 18 years old he studied at Cherepovets, at school, then at a mechanical college, he graduated from him and became a mechanic.

He lived poorly and lonely. I missed the house, read the classics. In the fall, G. worked well. In the year he married Gala Soboleva and began to study at the correspondence industrial institute. In the same year, mother died. In the year, together with his wife, they entered the Arkhangelsk Medical Institute. In the first year of the exercise, he finished two courses. All the time he worked as teaching.

He met closely with the exiled professor of physics V. He discovered the world of parapsychology for me. In the year "with honors" he graduated from the institute. I wanted to engage in physiology, but the place in graduate school was only in surgery. In parallel with medicine, he continued the teaching at the correspondence institute. For a diploma, from his choice, he did a project of a large airplane with a steam turbine.

He spent a lot of time on him, hoped that the project would be accepted for production. They did not accept, but in the year they gave a diploma of an engineer "with honors." Meanwhile, graduate school in the clinic did not like, love passed, family life was tired, there were no children. We discussed the situation with Galya and decided to live separately. He left Arkhangelsk, and joined the work as a resident - a surgeon of the hospital in his native Cherepovets.

I learned to do ordinary operations on the abdomen. Interest in physiology resulted in reflection on hypotheses about thinking mechanisms, about the interaction of the regulatory systems of the body. I still keep notebooks with "ideas". The beliefs on politics were formed: socialism admitted, but he did not treat the communist authorities well and did not want to serve in the army.

Perhaps the bitter experience of the family influenced, because the mother and sister of the mother disappeared in the camps. He worked in the mobilization commission, and a couple of days later he was appointed a leading surgeon in the field mobile hospital "PPG on horse rod". In this hospital and in one position he served the whole war with Germany and Japan.

The hospital was intended for work in the field, was designed for the wounded. The total state is 80 people, five doctors. Plus 22 horses. I will describe the events of war briefly. Summer and autumn of the year treated lightly wounded in Sukhinichi. In October, the Germans broke through the front, and we retreated for Moscow, to the city of Yegoryevsk. There he knew the first defeat: the patient died of gas gangrene as a result of my mistake.

I met the chief surgeon of the hospitals A. Friendship with him continued until his death in December, our offensive near Moscow began. The hospital worked in the rear of the front - in Podolsk, and then in Kaluga. We were increased by staff, a large building was allocated, the number of beds reached five hundred. There was very hard work with seriously wounded. The main problems: a gas infection made amputations, wounds of joints and thigh fractures - treated with plaster dressings.

There were many deaths and severe mental experiences. Then he developed his own methods of operations that reduced mortality.

He wrote the first dissertation and presented it to the Moscow Medical Institute. I have not seen a single dissertation before. In January, they received an order to be reduced to full -time beds and go to the military district, in the 48th Army, to the Bryansk Front. The first test was the village of Coal, cut off the snowfall from the high road. In cold huts lay up to six hundred unprocessed wounded.

Our five doctors could hardly only examine them so as not to miss bleeding or gas gangrene and have time to send on a sleigh to the dressing tent. Mortality was large. The mood is appropriate. All year, our PPG followed the advancing troops. The conditions were very difficult: overload, destroyed villages, work in tents, without electricity, poor evacuation. Gradually adapted: they learned to sort, bandage, operate, treat and evacuate.

Most of the wounded were brought from divisions in passing cars, and we sent them to the “second line” hospitals to the railway to take them to the rear in sanitary trains. It was in such a role that we found the end of the year. The hospital was deployed in the large Ukrainian village of Khorobichi, next to the station. The frozen wounded were brought in a hundred kilometers in whole columns in open trucks returning from the front line.

We removed only “lying” from the cars, and those who could move were sent to another hospital, to a neighboring village. While the sanitary train came up, we have accumulated wounded: we occupied the school and about four hundred hut.It is good that the inhabitants were not postponed, as it was in the coal, and the women -housewives helped our temporary orderlies of the lightly wounded, whom we detained for the duration of treatment.

In Khorobichi we had a good organization: sorting on admission, bypasses and dressing at home, fast delivery to the hospital department for operations. All together allowed to avoid almost avoiding! In December, sanitary trains went and we sent almost all the wounded. We started it near Gomel in the village of Buda, at the army supply station. For the hospital, the school was repaired and, together with the tents, received up to five hundred places.

Trains came regularly, and there were no difficulties with evacuation. In Buda, I received a notice from Moscow that a negative review has been given my dissertation: a scientific career has not yet taken place. We met the summer breakthrough of our troops in Belarus in the town of Pirevichi. There were not very many wounded. The troops quickly went forward, and we caught up with the front only in the fall, in Poland.

After several moves with hard work, we approached the border of East Prussia. The meeting was celebrated in the forest, in dugouts. The Germans were quickly broken through the defense of the wounded, only about two hundred were wounded, processed, placed plaster dressings and sent. Several times they crossed the territory of East Prussia, almost without working.

The conditions were excellent: all the Germans left, the towns and villages were empty, the economic property of the "trophies of our troops" - as much as they wanted. In the city of Elbing, we met Victory Day, having 18 seriously wounded. The army headquarters received medals and orders, at our hospital they held an army conference, waited for a month to decide fate, then handed over horses, plunged into the train and went home.

When they crossed the Volga, the hopes for demobilization melted. They saw how military echelons were continuously going to the east and everyone said that there would be a war with Japan. After a month of journey through all of Russia, they unloaded in the Primorsky Territory. Soon he found Bocharov, he was the main surgeon of the army, who came, like us, from the West.

In August, war was declared. We accepted a dozen light wounded on the border, and moved to Manchuria. At this time, the Americans dropped atomic bombs and Japan surrendered. After several crossings and moves, they unfolded in the town of pain and even accepted the wounded, after a short battle with the Japanese - suicide bombers. In September, we were transported to the area of ​​Vladivostok.