Nikolai Ivanovich Atyasov (13 July 1926, village of Uzyukovo, now Stavropol District of Samara Region — 25 April 2001, Saransk) was a Soviet and Russian surgeon, doctor of medical sciences (1966), professor (1971), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, honoured scientist of Russia and of Mordovia, and laureate of the State Prize of Mordovia. A large part of his research and clinical work was connected with the Gorky Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, where he worked from 1954; it was there, on his initiative, that the All-Russian Burns Centre was founded, later named after him.[1]

A career in medicine

Atyasov was born into a peasant family. In 1951 he graduated from the Kirov Gorky State Medical Institute and spent three years as a surgeon at the district hospital of Vyksa in Gorky Region, also teaching at the feldsher and midwifery school.[1] In 1954 he moved to a clinical residency at the Gorky Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, where he rose from resident to deputy director for research and head of the All-Russian Burns Centre.[2]

In 1957 Atyasov defended his candidate's dissertation "Intraosseous anaesthesia in outpatient surgery", and in 1966 his doctoral dissertation "The intraosseous route of infusion in traumatology and orthopaedics". In 1971 he was confirmed in the academic rank of professor.[2] He was the first in the world to apply the intraosseous method of infusing fluids — a technique that came into wide use in traumatology.[1]

Work in Mordovia

In September 1973, turning down offers from Moscow, Kyiv and Cuba, Atyasov accepted an invitation from Ogarev Mordovia State University and took charge of the department of general surgery and anaesthesiology, serving at the same time as deputy dean for research.[2] In Saransk he continued to develop methods of treating burn patients with combined injuries and took part in setting up and expanding a network of burns centres and units across the country.[1][3]

Among his published works are the medical atlas "Bandaging technique for soft tissue injuries and bone fractures" (co-authored with N. I. Reut, Saransk, 1977), as well as a number of monographs, teaching manuals, research papers, certificates and patents for inventions.[1]

The Nizhny Novgorod connection and remembrance

Nikolai Ivanovich Atyasov died in Saransk on 25 April 2001 and is buried at the cemetery of the village of Temryashino in the Bor urban district of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[1] Still in his lifetime, in 1996, the All-Russian Burns Centre at the Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (18 Verkhne-Volzhskaya Embankment, Nizhny Novgorod) was named after him.[1]

Sources

  1. names52.ru — Nikolai Ivanovich Atyasov
  2. cyberleninka.ru — Nikolai Ivanovich Atyasov (on his 70th birthday)
  3. stihi.ru — In memory of the expert in disaster medicine N. I. Atyasov (Svetlana Lambina) / Stihi.ru
  4. search.rsl.ru — Atyasov, Nikolai Ivanovich.