Gavriil Ilizarov

Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov was a Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones and for the method of surgery named after him, the Ilizarov surgery.

Ilizarov was born a sixth child to a poor Jewish peasant family in Biaowiea, Polesie Voivodeship, Poland. Shortly before his birth, the family moved to the parents of his mother in Biaowiea from the town Qusar in Azerbaijan, near Qrmz Qsb. His father, Abram Ilizarov, was a Mountain Jew from Qusar, while the mother, Golda Ilizarova, was of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Soon after Gavriils birth, the family moved back to Qusar, where he grew up. He graduated from Buynaksk Medical Rabfac in 1939 and entered the Crimea Medical School in Simferopol. After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941 the school was evacuated to Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan. After finishing the school in 1944 Ilizarov was sent to a rural hospital in Dolgovka, a village in Kurgan Oblast in Siberia, 2000160km east of Moscow. In 1950 he obtained a position within a General Surgery Department of the Kurgan Regional Hospital which included a duty as a surgeon with the air ambulance. In 1955 he became Chief of the Depa

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