Yuri F. Isakov was born in 1923 in the city of Kovrov of the Vladimir region. Participated in the great Patriotic war. In 1951 he graduated from the medical faculty, 1951-1953. – Intern, post – graduate student of Department of pediatric surgery of the 2nd Moscow medical Institute. In 1955 he defended his candidate thesis on "Intravenous and intraosseous anesthesia in operations on the extremities in children", in 1963 – his doctoral thesis on the topic: "Hirschsprung's Disease in children (pathogenesis, clinic, treatment)". In 1964 he became Professor, and in 1966 head of the Department of surgical diseases of childhood of the 2nd Moscow medical Institute and was appointed chief pediatric surgeon, head of the Main Department of educational institutions of the Ministry of health of the USSR. Under his leadership, held a number of progressive reforms, including was introduced biennial specialisation, adapted to the tasks of practical health care curricula, the initiative was created by the initiative of the all-Union children's surgical centre. Since 1981, Yuri F. Isakov, Deputy Minister of health of the USSR, 1989 – Vice-President, Academy of medical Sciences of the USSR (later the Russian Academy of medical Sciences), 1993-2005 was chief pediatric surgeon of the Ministry of health of Russia. He was Chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Association of pediatric surgeons, the Bureau of the scientific Council on pediatric surgery of the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of medical Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal "Pediatric surgery", Advisor of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of medical Sciences. Yuri Isakov is the author of over 400 scientific works, including 23 monographs, 8 textbooks and manuals, 12 inventions. Yuri F. Isakov died on August 4, 2016 in Moscow, Troekurov buried at a cemetery.
Professor Vladimir Dmitrievich Troshin
