Perelman Mikhail Izrailevich: biography, achievements and awards, family

Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman is a world-famous surgeon, phthisiatrist, academician, scientist, teacher. He was a man of an extraordinary mind, a cheerful, professional, an example of hard work.

Childhood. The family of Perelman Mikhail Izrailevich

Mikhail Izrailevich was born into a family of Soviet doctors. The main activity of the father is surgery, in this field he won the prestige of colleagues, respect and gratitude of patients. Parents for Michael and his younger sister were an example in everything. They laid the foundation of human values in children, instilled a correct attitude towards the profession. In the later life of their offspring, this played a significant role.

All his childhood, Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman spent in Belarus. In Vitebsk he graduated from school with a good certificate. He loved to learn. Also actively engaged in sports. His cherished youthful dream is to become a pilot. But, unfortunately, because of problems with vision, he was not accepted into the flight school. Aircraft designer Michael Perelman did not have to become either, since the Great Patriotic War began. Their family was evacuated in Ordzhonikidze, where his father became the head of a local surgical clinic.

Students

In Ordzhonikidze Perelman Mikhail Izrailevich decided on his profession and decided to become a doctor, but soon because of active military actions in the Caucasus, the Perelman family was sent to Novosibirsk. Here Mikhail Izrailevich continued his studies. He showed special interest in all medical sciences in surgery. To gain a deeper knowledge in this field of medicine, he became a member of the group at the Department of General Surgery, which was headed by Professor SM Rubashov.

In 1943 the family moved to Yaroslavl again. In the difficult military years, there was a shortage of specialists, so the student Perelman had to study and be on duty in the hospital. As a fourth-year student, he independently conducted operations.

After graduating from the Yaroslavl Medical Institute Perelman continued his studies at the university, where he defended his thesis.

After the war, Perelman was sent with students to Kologriv, where they had to operate and treat people in harsh conditions without light and centralized water supply. During this time, 154 operations were performed.

Professional activity

Working in the Yaroslavl Medical Institute, Perelman wrote three times research work for a doctorate in medicine:

1. The first topic was devoted to surgical intervention in the treatment of heart defects. For the first time in the USSR, Perelman Mikhail Izrailevich studied, compiled a method and implemented in practice a method of surgical intervention on the heart - the ligation of an open botulian duct. The research work was formalized and sent for recall to Moscow, but there was no response. The fate of scientific work remained unknown.
2. The second scientific study was vagotomy with peptic ulcer. Unfortunately, because of ideological prejudices, it is forbidden to study and apply surgical interventions to curb nerves in practice. Therefore, to defend the thesis again failed.
3. The third attempt to obtain a doctoral degree was the work devoted to the study of pancreatic cancer. But the tragic circumstances, namely the arrest of the supervisor of studies, did not allow further research.

Soon, Mikhail Perelman had to leave the pulpit and move to Rybinsk. There he took the post of deputy chief doctor of the city hospital. It was here that he was trained as a leader and organizer. But Mikhail Izrailevich never stopped operating. As an excellent doctor and surgeon, he became known throughout the city. During this period, Perelman was carried away by anatomy, the study of chest diseases and their treatment by operational methods.

In 1954, Perelman was invited to the capital, where he began work first in the 1st MGMU, then in the CIMS, where he would work until 1957. In 1958, at the invitation of E. N. Mishalkin, he worked in the newly organized Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Modern equipment, highly qualified colleagues and mentors allowed Perelman to perform many operations to reconstruct the respiratory system, to develop new ways of surgical interventions. It was at this time that he was awarded a doctorate in medicine.

In 1963, Perelman again moved to the capital, where he works under the leadership of Professor Petrovsky B. V. Together with a team of like-minded people, Mikhail Izrailevich explores and applies innovative methods in the surgical treatment of the respiratory system. Soon he was awarded the title of professor.

Since 1981, he headed the department dealing with the study and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, the 1 st Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov. After 17 years, he headed the Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, where he worked until the last days of his life.

Awards

During his professional career, Academician Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman was awarded dozens of times with various awards. The Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, five medals, the Order of St. Nicholas Pirogov (2005), the Order of St. Anne (Imperial Court).

Personal life

The personal life of Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman can not be compared in terms of brightness and saturation with professional events. His first wife was a pathologist Tatyana Boguslavskaya. In the marriage they had two sons who devoted their lives to medicine. Mikhail Izrailevich was a wonderful father. His children were very fond of him. The second wife was People's Artist of the USSR Inna Vladimirovna Makarova, with whom they lived together for more than 40 years.

The first meeting of Inna Vladimirovna and Mikhail Izrailevich took place during the war, when the young actress performed with concerts in military hospitals. The second time they met after 30 years, when Makarova was looking for a doctor for her mother, who suffered from a severe form of asthma. Perelman was able to help a woman. But this does not stop their relationship. After three offers to marry Inna Vladimirovna agreed.

Leaving a life

Like many doctors, Mikhail Izrailevich did not pay much attention to his health. For him, the main thing was his work, students. A few days before his death, he spoke at a conference where he brilliantly talked. March 29, 2013 suddenly became the chief phthisiatrist of Russia Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman. The cause of death is cardiac thromboembolism. This is an irreplaceable loss for the academician's family, and for his colleagues, followers, for all Russian medicine.