Bokeria nationality biography

By that time, two daughters were already growing in the family - Marina and Raisa. The Boker family was from Poti. These are Colchis, legendary places. It was here that the Argonauts landed under the leadership of the ancient Greek hero Jason, those who stole a golden rune at the local king Eet - the skin of a magic ram. In connection with the illness of the eldest daughter of Marina, the family moved to Ochamchira, a very ancient city on the shores of the Black Sea, where a healthier and dry climate.

There, the future outstanding cardiac surgeon L. was born, the children's memory of the three-year-old Leo, as they began to call her son, did not leave memories of his father, who suddenly died in the year. Since the year, the family lived in Poti-the country's naval base. Ships from Sevastopol were relocated here during the war along with the Sergo Ordzhonikids shipyard.

The wives of military sailors were mainly teachers and many taught in the Poti schools. Since childhood and all his life, his passionate enthusiasm has been football. Then in Poti Football is the main game for all children and adults. Yard football was unusually developed, and in other cases, the level of the game was risen to professional. The football team of the city of Poti participated in the Georgian Championship and was among the first 5-6 best.

In the 7th grade, Leo participated in the championship of schools in the city of Poti in football.

In Ochamchir, where the young man graduated from school, a championship was held with the participation of all football teams of the city. The school team with his participation won all matches and took 1st place. He strove only for victory. He needed to chase after him, so that he would beat him, give sharp passes or he beat him on goal. So his character was formed.

The second hobby of Leo’s life was chess. By accident, getting into the chess-step club Avner Iosifovich Fader, he shared his free time between his native and familiar football field and his favorite chess club. All the years while studying, he played for the institute’s team for championship among Moscow universities not only in football, but also in chess. A great influence on the choice of the profession of Leo Antonovich was exerted by his older sister Marina, who studied at the Odessa Medical Institute.

At a time, when among peers, it was about choosing a specialty, one of the first was the profession of a doctor. An unsuccessful attempt to enter the Odessa Medical Institute brought Leo to work for the construction of a chara -lifting factory in Ochamchir. Production experience gave advantages for entering the institute. He decided to enter the 1st Moscow State Medical Institute named after I.

Bokeria entrance exams well passed. The aunt, from whom he lived, who bought him a ticket to Moscow and supplied him with rubles, who grabbed his life throughout the entire time for passing exams, helped financially. His student generation was very lucky. They were taught real luminaries of medical science. Academician D. Zhdanov - Anatomy, academician P. Anokhin - physiology, academics V.

Vasilenko and A. Myasnikov - therapy. Great surgeons N. Elansky, M. Kuzin, V. Kovanov, B. Petrovsky, N. Malinovsky, therapists V. Vinogradov, Z. Bondar, E. Tareev, pharmacologists V. Kamisov, D. Kharkevich, pathologists A. Strukov, V. Leo knew how to study, but also with perseverance, hesitated, serious attitude towards, a serious attitude towards a serious attitude towards. study. By the 4th course, he chose his professional future-cardiac surgery as an independent direction, which was then only formed.

Preparing himself for a future specialty, Leo begins to engage in and work in a scientific student circle at the Department of Operational Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of the 1st Medical Institute named after I. Kovanov under the guidance of a graduate student of the G. Falkovsky in the future, a professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Surge. Bakuleva, led by Academician V.

Burakovsky, led the laboratory of heart transplant, then for about 20 years he headed the surgery of congenital heart defects in young children, and at present - the adviser to the director of the SSC named after Bakuleva MZ of the Russian Federation. The most complex operations with artificial blood circulation, up to the heart transplant, were tested there in an experiment on animals, and hypothermia experiments were carried out.

The motto of this student circle, accompanied by many generations of students, was “to grow seekers”. After G. Falkovsky completed his work on autogenic oxygenation for artificial blood circulation, L. Bokeria decided to do something else. Kovanov encouraged new works. Once inquisitive student Leo Bokeria, who by that time graduated from English courses, in the Central Medical Library came across the first article of the world -famous Dutch scientist I.

Borem in English about an unfamiliar concept - hyperbaric oxygenation I. He used this method for the use of oxygen under increased pressure during operations to lengthen the deadlines for cardiac arrest. Nobody was engaged in hyperbaric oxygenation in the country. This method interested him, and he decided to seriously engage in his study and application.As a 5th year student, Leo Bokeria adapted the autoclave not used at the department in the first experiments.

Immediately after graduating from the institute in the year in the midst of the scientific work of Leo as part of the student detachment of the MVTU named after Bauman was sent to Kazakhstan, to the virgin lands. The circle of duties of a student of the student construction detachment was extensive. He had to rush in the gazik on the endless steppes and provide medical assistance much more often not to his students from the detachment, but to local residents, for whom a trip to the nearest medical center was turned by a whole trip.

For the first time, the organizational abilities of Leo Bokeria were manifested there. Kovanov, where he continued to deal with his theme - HBO. The result of the hard work of the graduate student of the Department of Operational Surgery was the creation of a small barorammer for experimental purposes. She was made according to his drawings. Between themselves, the participants in the experiment called it the “barrel” of Bokeria.

It should be noted that the famous surgeon I. Borem already worked in a finished barooperation idea there from the design of submarines. The perseverance of the young researcher L. Bokeria could be envied. They did more dog operations. In the most important period of preparation of the dissertation in the year, an earthquake in Tashkent occurred. Bokeria was appointed head of the medical services of the All -Union Student Construction Consolidated Detachment "Friendship".

Such detachments arrived from all republics and worked in various places affected by the elements. During a half -year stay, it was necessary to assist in conditions when underground shocks continued. Ahead of schedule, a few months before the completion of graduate school in the year, Leo Bokeria brilliantly defended his thesis on the topic “Hyperbaric oxygenation upon stopping blood circulation, experimental examination, where professor Vladimir Ivanovich Burakovsky himself was the opponent of the dissertation, appointed by the year earlier the director of the A.

cardiovascular surgery Institute named after Having familiarized himself with the dissertation and evaluating its significance for cardiac surgery, V. Burakovsky invited L. Boker to his institute to create a GBO laboratory. With the assistance of his supervisor, academician V. Kovanov L. Bakuleva, with whom he forever associated life. At that time, V. Burakovsky had already decided to create in the department for small patients who underwent an open heart, a new operating room for work by the HBO method, but it was necessary to know the method of hyperbaric oxygenation.

Bakulev, a specialist who has gained knowledge and considerable experience, doing operations in an animal experiment. Ryabova, under the leadership of the director of the plant M. Neuminom, the first specialized barooperation in the country was built, allowed for operation in the year.