In memory of the participant of the Great Patriotic war, professor N.S. Misyuk

Abstract

Nikolay Semenovich Misyuk is a doctor of medical sciences, professor, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, chief neuropathologist of the Ministry of Health of the Byelorussian SSR. This article attempts to tell his life story in honor of the 105th anniversary of his birth. Nikolay Semenovich made a significant contribution to healthcare of both the USSR as a whole and the Byelorussian SSR, in particular: he was the first to perform stereotactic operations on the thalamus, one of the first in the USSR to formulate the principles of endovascular surgery and performed a series of operations for arterial hypertension, the founder of medical forecasting in clinical neuropathology, the creator and first head of the Belarusian Republican Center for Forecasting Cerebral Strokes. He went through the Great Patriotic War as a doctor and commander of medical units, and was awarded medals and orders. N.S. Misyuk trained more than one generation of doctors, working at the Department of Nervous Diseases of the Leningrad State Institute for Advanced Medical Studies, and later heading a similar department at the Arkhangelsk State Medical Institute and the Minsk State Medical Institute. Professor N.S. Nikolai Semenovich did not forget to devote time to his hobby: playing chess, collecting icons, writing various literary works (for example, the story “Night Challenge”). N.S. Misyuk is an outstanding person, a doctor, an organizer, who is remembered by descendants, colleagues, friends!