Dzhanelidze I. I. (Y. Y.), (1883-1950), surgeon

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DZHANELIDZE Iustin Ivlianovich (Yustin Yulianovich) (1883-1950, Leningrad) was surgeon, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944), Lieutenant General of Medical Service (1943), Hero of Socialist Labour (1945). In 1905, he was expelled from Kharkiv University for participation in student unrest and received his medical education in Switzerland. From 1911 he worked in the Women’s Medical Institute in St. Petersburg. He was the first surgeon in the world to have successfully sewn a wound of the ascending aorta (1913). From 1921, Dzhanelidze was professor and head of the Chair of General Surgery in the First Leningrad Medical Institute. Dzhanelidze’s research focused on traumatology, heart surgery, plastic and urgent surgery. He was a founder and the scientific adviser of the Institute of Emergency Medicine (1932; now named after Dzhanelidze). In 1939-47, he was chief surgeon of the Military Medical Academy. In 1943-50, he headed the chair of Military Surgery of the Military Naval Medical Academy. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1950. In 1913-47 Dzhanelidze lived at 44 Bolshoy Avenue of the Petrogradskaya Side, in 1947-50 at 24 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue (where he died). He is buried in Literatorskie Mostki Cemetery. There is a bronze bust on his grave (sculptor I.V. Krestovsky, 1951). There is a memorial plaque on the building of the Clinic of General Surgery of the Medical University where Dzhanelidze worked from 1911 to 50 (4-6 Lva Tolstogo Street). In 1983 a bronze memorial medal was struck in honour of Dzhanelidze’s Centennial.

References: Жизнь и деятельность Ю. Ю. Джанелидзе: По воспоминаниям учеников. Тбилиси, 1977.

V. I. Dedyulin. Dzhanelidze Iustin Ivlianovich (Yustin Yulianovich)
Krestovsky Igor Vsevolodovich
Bolshoy Ave of Petrograskaya Storona/Saint Petersburg, city, house 44
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Жизнь и деятельность Ю. Ю. Джанелидзе: По воспоминаниям учеников. Тбилиси, 1977
Дедюлин В. И. И. И. Джанелидзе как историк медицины, в сб.: Из истории медицины. Л., 1990 Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis