I.D. Zhitnyuk – from commissar of the special purpose regiment to major general, head of the department of the Military medical academy named after S.M. Kirov (to the 120th anniversary of his birth)

Khanevich M.D.

In 2023, the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding surgeon Professor Ivan Demyanovich Zhitnyuk was celebrated. He has passed a difficult life path from a worker in railway workshops to Major General m/s, head of the Department of Surgery for Advanced Training of Doctors No. 2 of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov. A student of Professor S.P. Fedorov, he worthily, at all stages of his professional activity, represented the school of the great surgeon and scientist.

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