Bust of Academician Yudin

Sergei Sergeevich Yudin (September 27 (October 9), 1891, the city of Moscow - June 12, 1954, the city of Moscow) was an outstanding surgeon, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944). In 1915 he graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University, served as a regimental doctor, in 1916 he received a severe wound to the spine and was demobilized. In 1925 Sergei Sergeevich published the monograph "Spinal anesthesia", which was awarded the prize named after Professor F.A. Rein. He worked in clinics of the city of London, then about 3 months – in the USA. Since 1925 he was the Head of the Surgical Department, and then (since 1928) he was the Chief surgeon of the Institute of Emergency Aid named after N.V. Sklifosovskii. In 1930, he used blood transfusion of suddenly dead people to alive for the first time in the clinic.

During the Great Patriotic War, as a senior inspector-surgeon, S.S. Iudin helped to introduce the latest achievements in the work of field surgeons, became famous for his work in the field of emergency and military field surgery and anesthesiology.

He was made an honorary member of the Royal society of surgeons of Great Britain, American, Paris, Prague societies of surgeons, honorary doctor of the Sorbonne and other academies. In 1947 he got into disgrace, in 1948 he was repressed, and in 1952 he was exiled for 10 years to the Novosibirsk region, to the city of Berdsk. Iudin was allowed to operate first in the hospital of the city of Berdsk, and then he was appointed a consultant surgeon to the Oncology Department of the Regional Clinical Hospital of the city of Novosibirsk, where he received permission to move. Summarizing the experience of 17,000 of his manipulations, he worked on the monograph "Studies of gastric surgery", which now educate generations of surgeons. Sergei Sergeevich returned to the city of Moscow in 1953. On June 5 of the same year he was fully rehabilitated. In 1962, the great surgeon was posthumously awarded the Lenin prize, i.e. the highest award of the state at that time.

The bust of academician Iudin was installed in 1996. The authors of the monument are sculptor Aleksei Diakov and architect Valerii Arbatskii.