Nikolay Strazhesko (1876–1952)
Born 1876 CE, died 1952 CE.
Nikolay Strazhesko (also transliterated as Mykola Strazhesko; 17 December 1876 - 27 June 1952) was a Ukrainian physiologist and therapist. Over his career, he worked in a variety of institutes and clinics, although he is perhaps most famous for founding and being the inaugural Director of the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Clinical Medicine. Born in Odesa, then part of the Russian Empire, Strazhesko first became a student at the Faculty of Medicine at the Kyiv Imperial University of St. Volodymyr. After graduating, he worked in the Clinic of Inner Diseases there, before going abroad and then to St. Petersburg to learn more. In St. Petersburg, he did research at the S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy and wrote his dissertation, before he again moved to Ukraine to Kyiv. There he became a senior resident and professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv while also being a professor at the Kyiv Women's Medical Institute and working at the Kyiv City Hospital. In 1919 he went to the Imperial Novorossiya University, before going back to the University of Kyiv in 1922, where he worked at until 1936 in internal medicine.
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