Orlov, Konstantin Khrisanfovich

Born on October 6, 1875 in the village of Ishkarta, the former Dagestan region.

In 1893 , at the end of the Simbirsk gymnasium , he entered the medical faculty of Kazan University .

After graduating from the university ( 1898 ), he held the positions of resident of the eye clinic and assistant to the prosector. He received an eye doctor specialization while working in the clinic of E.V. Adamyuk in Kazan .

In 1903, in Kazan, Orlov defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine - "On the doctrine of eye changes in chronic poisoning with ergot and its preparations." In the same year he was enrolled as a laboratory assistant at the Eye Clinic of Kazan University and was awarded the title of privat-docent.

In 1905 - 1907 he was engaged in active revolutionary activities, was under special supervision of the Kazan gendarmerie, was imprisoned, and as a result he was fired from the University as a revolutionary.

Having left Kazan in 1907 , Orlov moved to Pyatigorsk , where doctors and public circles promoted him to the post of chief doctor of the hospital.

At the end of 1911, he was elected to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Warsaw, where he created a well-equipped eye clinic, launched scientific work, and set up the teaching of ophthalmology. At the suggestion of Orlov, the eye doctors merged into the Warsaw Ophthalmological Society.

In 1915, the University of Warsaw was moved to Rostov-on-Don , where K. Kh. Orlov worked until the end of his life.

In 1917 he was elected deputy chairman of the Rostov City Council.

In 1918, he served as chairman of the commission for the protection of public health at the Council of People's Commissars of the Donetsk Socialist Republic.

In 1920 - Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University.

In 1921 he organized an ophthalmologic circle, which he soon transformed into the Don Ophthalmological Society (subsequently reorganized into the North Caucasian and then Rostov Ophthalmological Society).

In 1921, Konstantin Khrisanfovich implemented a project for the concentration of eye care in the Rostov region (partially and in the North Caucasus). To do this, in the autumn of the same year, the Don Regional Eye Hospital, opened at his suggestion, was located in the clinic.

Also, K. Kh. Orlov founded the Department of Eye Diseases of the Azerbaijan Medical Institute, which he was in charge of from 1922 to 1923 , after which he transferred the department to his student, Professor A. G. Trubin , Honored Worker of Science.

In 1941, Orlov opened a hospital at the base of his clinic. Together with this hospital, he was evacuated to Baku , then to Ashgabat , where he continued his activities in providing eye care to the wounded. In 1943, Konstantin Khrisanfovich moved to Kuibyshev (now Samara ), where the scientists from the Rostov Medical Institute, who had been evacuated, had gathered. After the liberation of Rostov-on-Don from Nazi invaders, together with other professors of the Rostov Medical Institute, Orlov returned to his home clinic.

He died on April 14, 1952 in Rostov-on-Don.

• Honorary member of the North Caucasus, Saratov, Odessa, Gorky, Tomsk ophthalmological societies and honorary chairman of the Uzbek society of eye doctors.
• He was entrusted with the honorable role of chairing the 1st All-Russian Congress of Ophthalmologists ( 1913 ), and opening the work of the 1st All-Union Congress of Ophthalmologists ( 1926 ).
• In 1928, Orlov was awarded the honorary title of Honored Scientist.

• In 1928, the North Caucasus Regional Executive Committee decided: To assign the name “named after Professor K. Kh. Orlov” to the NKGU Eye Clinic.
• On the building of the former eye hospital in Rostov-on-Don, where the scientist lived and worked, a memorial plaque was installed in 1962 ^[1] . Nowadays, this is the intersection of Krasnoarmeyskaya Street and Budyonnovsky Prospect.
• In October 2010, an exhibition was organized in Rostov-on-Don dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Khrisanfovich Orlov. ^[2]

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