Stradinsh, Pavel Ivanovich

Pauls Stradins was born on January 17, 1896 in Vyesita (formerly Ekengrave), in the family of a craftsman. He studied at local rural schools, at Jekabpils school of commerce, at Dubulti private gymnasium, in 1914 he graduated from the Riga Alexander School with a gold medal. From 1914 to 1919, Pauls Stradins studied in Petrograd, at the Military Medical Academy , graduated with honors, later improved his knowledge and defended his thesis on "Lesions of the peripheral nerves and their treatment" under the guidance of Professor S. P. Fedorov (1869-1936) in Hospital Surgery Clinic.

Returning to Latvia, from 1924 he worked under the direction of Professor Jekabs Alksnis (1870-1957) at the Surgical Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Latvia. In 1925 and 1926 he trained in the USA and in England as a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship holder. In 1927 he defended his second dissertation on the topic “Etiology, clinic and therapy of the so-called gangraena spontanea”.

For his principled views, during the German occupation he was relieved of his duties as medical director of the Second Riga City Hospital and in 1942, was removed from the post of scientific director of the Cancer Hospital.

He died on August 14, 1958 in Riga. He was buried in the Forest Cemetery .

Medicine is a profession, science and art at the same time. Only a good person can be a good doctor. Love is the highest medicine. After me I must leave the clinic, the surgical school and the museum.

(Pauls Stradins)

• Since 1924 he worked in the Surgical Clinic of the Medical Faculty of LU
• From 1925 to 1926 he trained in the USA and England
• 1928 - Head of the Department of General Surgery, LU
• From 1931 to 1941, director of the Second Riga City Clinic
• 1933 - Professor, Department of General Surgery, LU
• In 1939 founded the first Cancer Hospital in Latvia and the Second Medical School
• In 1941, founded the Republican Blood Transfusion Station
• From 1944 to 1946 - Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of LU
• From 1944 to 1947 - chief physician of the Second Riga City Clinic
• In 1945 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR
• In 1946 he founded the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine at the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR
• From 1946 to 1951 - Director of the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine at the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR
• In 1946 he was elected an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR
• Since 1951 - Head of the Oncology Sector of the Latvian Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine
• 1948 served as chairman of the Medical Scientific Council under the Ministry of Health of the Latvian SSR
• From 1945 to 1949 - Chief Surgeon of the Republic
• Since 1950 - chief oncologist of the republic
• Since 1955 - Member of the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR.

• Founder of clinical oncology in Latvia.
• Research on early cancer diagnosis and cancer care.
• Clinical surgery work - cholecystitis , gastric ulcer , purulent disease, diagnosis and treatment of damage to the peripheral nerves and others.
• Oncology works - surgical, radiation and therapeutic methods for the treatment of malignant neoplasms.
• He contributed to the development of new areas of medicine at that time ( oncology , blood transfusion , heart and blood vessel surgery, lung surgery, anesthesiology and intensive care , chemotherapy , etc.)
• Research in traumatology, urology, blood transfusion, nutrition, pharmacology, physiotherapy, balneology, healthcare, construction of medical institutions, etc.
• Research on the history of medicine in the Baltics.

The son of academician P. Stradins Jānis Stradins (born 1933) is a chemical scientist, academician of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, a historian of science and culture.

The grandson of academician P. Stradins, Andrei Erglis, is a cardiac surgeon and scientist, professor, head of the cardiocenter of the University Clinical Hospital .

• Lesions of the peripheral nerves and their treatment. Petrograd, 1923 (dissertation).
• Par tā saucamās gangraena spontanea etioloģiju, klīniku un terapiju. Rīga, 1927 (dissertation).
• Tautas veselības kalendāra izdevējs (1936-1940).
• Stradyn P.I. Selected Works. Riga, vols. 1-3, 1963-1965.

• Latvian Culture Fund Prize, 1928.
• Full member of the International Academy for Advanced Studies of Doctors, 1938.
• Cross of honor of the third degree, 1939.
• Honored Scientist of the Latvian SSR, 1945.
• Corresponding Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR , 1945.
• Full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR , 1946.
• Member of the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR, 1955.
• Honorary Member and Honorary Chairman of the Scientific Council of Surgeons of Latvia, 1955.
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (01/31/1956)
• Honored Member of the Society of Surgeons. Pirogov, 1957.

• The sculpture of the Estonian artist Anton Starkopf “The end is peace”
• Sculptor Alexandra Briede , in Riga, 13 Pilsonu Street, in the hospital garden.
• Sculptor Karlis Jansons , architect Edvins Vecumnieks (in Wiesite ) ^[3]
• Commemorative plates in Viesite, in Riga and in Jurmala
• Restaurants and streets bearing the name Paula Stradiņa
• Established Stradins Prize
• The name is Museum of the History of Medicine (Riga)
• In 1996 , in honor of the centenary of P. Stradins, the Latvian Post issued a postage stamp.

• Akadēmiķis Pauls Stradiņš. Bibliogrāfija. Academician Pavel Ivanovich Stradyn. Bibliography. Riga, 1959. 138 lpp.
• Profesors Pauls Stradiņš dzīvē un darbā. Riga, 1961.362 lpp.
• Pavel Ivanovich Stradyn - doctor, scientist, person. Repl. ed. V.V. Kanep. Riga: Zinatne, 1967.392 s.