Dreyer, Kira Lvovna

Born in Leningrad in the family of a shipbuilding engineer, and later an employee of the transport inspection of the administrative department of the Leningrad Provincial Executive Committee Lev Lvovich Dreyer (1885-1942) and his wife Olga Alexandrovna (Ur. Kazi) (1893-1942). The family lived in 139 on Prospekt 25 October (the so-called Nevsky Prospekt in those years), which allowed her to study at the nearby 2nd full secondary school of the Volodarsky district - the former 3rd real school ^[6] , where in 30- For years, teachers of pre-revolutionary hardening remained. Having successfully graduated from school, in 1939 K. L. Dreyer entered the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute .

It so happened that most of Kira Lvovna's studies at the institute fell on difficult blockade years. The Pediatric Institute was the only one in the besieged city that continued to teach its students. Only for a few months of the harshest winter of 1941-1942, classes were temporarily discontinued. However, the clinics continued to work, and students with their teachers treated their young patients in them. In February 1942, Kira Lvovna buried her father, in June her mother died of starvation. The forces were enough only to take the bodies of the parents to the emergency room of the hospital. Kuibyshev at Liteiny. etc. There was organized a reception center for corpses for residents of the central part of the city. Where father and mother Kira Lvovna were never buried ^[7] . In addition to everything, in 1943 news came from the front that Lev’s elder brother was missing. Death went by. But an amazing thing, she sharpened the feeling of life. Theater, music, poetry - all this did not cease to excite. Institutional friend Kira Lvovna Natalya Panchenko wrote well about this in her diary:

“13.XII.1941. Last night Kira came in to warm up, and today we read with her a fantastic novel of today - the cookbook Molokhovets . Well, damn it, ate ....

3.X.1943 Yesterday we, that is, me, Kira, Sima, Beta and other girls, were again in the Philharmonic at a concert. There were very few people, and the concert was very good, literary, mostly BDT artists ... The latest issue was Policeimako and we all triumphed, as soon as he was forced to read the encore. Kirk liked the low notes in his voice, but there’s nothing to say about me ....

2.XII.1943. Yesterday, I was a little engaged in histology at the department, and then went to Kira and spent the night with her. We talked a lot with her, everyone remembered youth. And now I have come home, there is no one else, I have to deal with it, and laziness I can’t teach the unfortunate genitourinary system. No way she does not go to my head! Well, and besides - after all, we talked all night with Kira, I want to sleep. How are Kirk and I “mutually understood”! How pleasant it is to have such a soul mate in the world, how difficult it was for me without it. And now, very, very much like before the war — well, good. Okay. We must finish and learn ....

29.XI.1943 Oh! Yesterday, Kira called me to Vyborg on “Near the Walls of Leningrad” and I did not go. And the performance was replaced with a Flax concert, but I was not ... Oh, I go all day today as a drunk on this occasion. Something rubbish on physiology, so even Livshits noticed it .... In many ways, I just have not yet become an adult, while Kira is much older than me. This is, perhaps, in relation to literature and all philosophy. I have no philosophy, and I think about it a little. No and no! She studied the foundations of Marxism-Leninism - took for granted, did not understand much and calmed down on this. Materialism - let there be materialism; obviously in me the critical vein that is so strong in Cyrus has not yet matured ....

10.XII.1943 Yesterday I completely ran in with a subscription. Was in the surgery clinic at Kira Dreyer. There was a Sturm ^[1] in which my Pickaxe was in love. He is good. And then we went to the cinema. Zoya forgot her glasses and arrived later. We watched “Wait for me” in “Spartak” ....

21.I.1944. Well, Kirk gave me to read her work. I’m even uncomfortable now that I showed her my diaries and “poems”. Far from her talent. What wonderful things she has! Beautiful, young, tender ....

22.I.1944. It is very, very difficult to convey everything that overwhelms me. After all, the battle started for Leningrad continues successfully! That night the jubilation continued until almost 3 o’clock. And in our summary ... Oh! How I squealed! Peterhof , Volosovo , many villages (which I really don’t know), and most importantly - Duderhof - the damned “ Raven Mountain ”, and on it were the most important guns, the very ones that poisoned our lives for so much time ... After the Christmas tree at Inulka, we said goodbye, and I went to Kirk. We were so crazy all night, so crazy! I have not been in such a stormy state for a long time ... ”

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Left alone, she moved to a hostel, which was temporarily equipped in one of the educational buildings directly on the territory of the institute. This was necessary because most of the time free from classes, Kira Lvovna was on duty at the surgical clinic as an operating sister. The main contingent of patients at the clinic was children who suffered from shelling and bombing, so the first clinical experience with Kira Lvovna was related to traumatology, and the main teacher and literally an idol was an orthopedic surgeon, associate professor Viktor Avtugovich Sturm ^[1] . Apparently then she had a desire to become a pediatric surgeon.

Lectures to students were not given in classrooms, but in small classrooms. Professor A. B. Volovik recalled:

“There were few students ... I was sitting by the stove, and around there were students. I can say that neither before nor after this school year did I have such contact with the audience. ”

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Among these twenty grateful students, K. L. Dreyer listened to lectures on the propaedeutics of childhood diseases.

After graduating from the institute in 1944, Kira Lvovna was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. She was demobilized only in 1946 and was immediately accepted by the resident physician at the Pediatric Surgery Clinic of LPMI. After 6 years, in 1952, the head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the LPMI Professor Alexander Vladislavovich Shatsky ^[1] invited K. L. Dreyer to the position of assistant. In 1963, under the guidance of A. V. Shatsky and professor of the Department of Histology and Embryology E. S. Danini ^[2], she defended her thesis: “Surgical treatment of spinal hernias in children”. The topic being developed for the first time, and besides, at the junction of the two disciplines was extremely complex. Almost ten years it took Kira Lvovna to collect and process the material. And all this only in free time from the main work. 5 years after defending a dissertation, in 1968 K. L. Dreyer was awarded the academic title of associate professor.

Back in 1960, the Department of Pediatric Surgery at LPMI was headed by an outstanding scientist, clinician and surgeon, Professor Girey Alievich Bairov , who came here as an assistant a year earlier Kira Lvovna. For more than three decades, fate has tied these two talented people together. Many generations of pediatric surgeons called Girey Alievich their mentor father, but K. L. Dreyer always remained their second mother.

K. L. Dreyer did not leave behind her fundamental scientific works. She always gravitated to practical activities. She lived all her professional life at the department and in the clinic. It was to her that young surgeons were drawn to discuss professional issues, seek advice. Kira Lvovna knew about everything that happened at the department and in the clinic. Over time, she headed the surgical service of the first base hospital of the department. N.K. Krupskaya (currently - the children's hospital of St. Mary Magdalene ), and then in the newly opened in Leningrad Children's City Hospital No. 1.

City Children's Hospital No. 1

Perhaps the main thing in life of K. L. Dreyer was the Children's City Hospital No. 1 ^[3] . Built on the funds earned by Leningraders at the Communist Subbotnik , it went into operation in 1977. Since the hospital’s opening and for almost 30 years, Kira Lvovna has been the permanent surgical leader of the hospital. She had a unique chance and, at the same time, a huge responsibility from scratch to create the surgical service of a large multidisciplinary hospital. This became possible only due to the fact that like-minded people were nearby: the chief physician of the hospital G. A. Zaitsev ^[10] ; Associate Professor E. K. Tsybulkin , who formed the service of anesthesiology and intensive care; Professor N.P. Shabalov , who became the organizer of the neonatology departments; Associate Professor R.V. Boldyrev , who oversaw the pediatric direction of the hospital. These were years of hard work, when a team of doctors united by common goals and aspirations was formed from the young graduates of the pediatric institute as soon as possible. Behind each surgeon stood Kira Lvovna Dreyer. Daily rounds of surgical departments, consultations of patients in intensive care wards, a constant presence in the operblok, where she, moving from table to table, could only direct the course of the operation in the right direction with a single remark. Thanks to K. L. Dreyer, the surgical service of Children's hospital No 1 took a worthy place among all children's surgical clinics in the city, becoming the leader in most areas of pediatric surgery.

After the family of the daughter and the death of her husband in 1995, the Children's Hospital No. 1 became the only home for Kira Lvovna. Here she died on February 15, 1996.

Within the walls of Children's hospital No 1, Kira Lvovna brought up a galaxy of unique doctors - pediatric surgeons: the head of the emergency surgery department, Evgeny Mikhailovich Polyakov; children's surgeons - Alexander Abramovich Shulgin and Igor Semenovich Nazarkin; pediatric surgeon, and then the head doctor of Children's hospital No 1, Anatoly Vladimirovich Kagan ; the heads of the department of elective surgery are Yuli Lvovich Dymshits and Alla Sergeevna Markaryan ^[11] ; Head of the Department of Urology Yakov Nikolaevich (Karsielievich) Aleinikov ^[12] ; neonatal surgeons - Professor Svetlana A. Karavaeva ^[13] and Alexei Nikolaevich Kotin ^[14] ; Marina Frantsevna Kovshova, head of the department of traumatology ^[15] , Alexander Ivanovich Grigoriev, the first children's combiologist in Leningrad, and many, many others.

• Husband Irlin Arkady Vladimirovich (1922-1995) - resuscitator of Children's Hospital No. 2 named after N.K. Krupskaya;
• Daughter Gelina Irina Arkadevna (03/29/1954) - neonatologist; lives in Israel;
• Son-in-law Gelin Yakov Borisovich (1950) - pediatric surgeon, urologist; lives in Israel.

• Dreyer K. L., Suslennikova E. A. On the question of surgical treatment of ovarian cysts in newborns // Pediatrics. 1963.-№ 7.-S.68-70.
• Dreyer, K. L., Bether T. N. On the question of surgical treatment of portal hypertension / Materials of the second All-Russian conference of pediatric surgeons (II, 1966; Kaliningrad) - Kaliningrad: B.I., 1966. −223 p. (S.171-172).
• Dreyer K. L. Spinal hernia. In the book: Surgery of malformations in children / ed. G.A. Bairova. —L .: Medicine, 1968. —C. 532-550.
• Bairov G. A., Dreyer K. L., Verevitina T. P. et al. Complications of the postoperative period in acute appendicitis in children. / Materials of the VIII scientific-practical conference of surgeons, traumatologists, orthopedists of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. 1969.-S. 49–55.
• Nemilova N. K., Dreyer K. L. Successful treatment of subcapsular hematoma of the liver in a newborn child // Herald of Surgery 1976. -№ 10.
• Dreyer K. L., Nemilova N. K., Doroshevsky Yu. L. Perforation of Meckel's diverticulum in a newborn // Herald of Surgery 1977. -№ 3.
• Bairov G. A., Nemilova N. K., Dreyer K. L. Successful surgical treatment of caudal duplication in an infant // Herald of Surgery 1977. -№ 7.
• Nemilova N. K., Doroshevsky Yu. L., Dreyer K. L., Popov A. A. Long-term results of multistep treatment of a child with atresia of the esophagus and anus // Bulletin of Surgery 1979. -№ 6.
• Bairov G.A., Nemilova N.K., Dreyer K.L., Doroshevsky Yu.L. Tumors of newborns. In the book: Improving the diagnosis, treatment methods and organization of oncological care for children. -M., 1981. -C. 308-310.

Nevsky Prospect , 139; Prospect Artists , 39

• Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
• Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Medal "In memory of the 250th anniversary of Leningrad"
• Anniversary medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Anniversary medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Anniversary medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

• St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia

• To the 75th anniversary of the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy. 1925-2000. Biographies. St. Petersburg, 2000 .-- 400 p .;