Shumakov, Valery Ivanovich

He graduated from high school number 330 in Moscow .

In 1950 he entered the 1st Moscow Sechenov Medical Institute of the USSR Ministry of Health .

In 1956 - 1959 he was a graduate student of the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of the same institute (after graduate school he worked in the academic group of B.V. Petrovsky on the problem of cardiopulmonary bypass with open correction of heart defects ).

In 1959 he defended his thesis on "Surgical correction of mitral valve insufficiency", and in 1965 - the doctoral thesis ^[1] , in which he systematized data on the diameters of the cardiac orifice of a person after excision of natural heart valves . The values ​​shown in it formed the basis for the standard sizes of domestic ball mechanical prostheses of heart valves .

• 1963 - 1966 - senior researcher at the Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery of the USSR Ministry of Health.
• 1966 - 1969 - Head of the Institute of Artificial Heart and Auxiliary Blood Circulation Institute (in 1969, approved as a professor).
• 1969 - 1974 - Head of the Department of Transplantation and Artificial Organs.
• 1974 - 2008 - Director of the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation ^[2] .

For the first time in the USSR, he successfully performed a kidney transplant (1965), a heart transplant (1988), a simultaneous heart, liver, and pancreas transplant , as well as a two-stage heart transplant . He was the founder of a scientific school, trained more than 50 doctors and 120 candidates of medical and biological sciences. The author of three scientific discoveries, more than 20 monographs, 450 scientific papers, 200 inventions. Since 1994, he was the editor-in-chief of the journal “Bulletin of Transplantology and Artificial Organs”. In 1995, edited by V. I. Shumakov, the first in Russia “Guide to Transplantology” ^{[3] was} published.

Until the end of his life, he headed the department "Physics of Living Systems" founded by him at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ^[4] .

The last years of his life he lived in Moscow, in the House on the embankment . He died on January 27, 2008 in Moscow. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery .

• Hero of Socialist Labor ( Decree of the President of the USSR of December 26, 1990 , Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle Medal ) - for his outstanding contribution to the development of Soviet transplantology and its practical application, fruitful scientific and social activities ^[5]
• Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called ( November 3, 2001 ) - for outstanding achievements in the field of healthcare and medical science ^[6]
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree ( April 12, 1999 ) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic transplantology, the creation and introduction of artificial organs in clinical practice, fruitful scientific and social activities ^[7]
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, III degree ( March 20, 1995 ) - for outstanding services in healthcare and medical science, achievements in the field of transplantology and artificial organs ^[8]
• Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow" (1997)
• The honorary title " Honored Inventor of the RSFSR " ( December 6, 1978 ) - for merits in the field of inventive activity ^[9]
• USSR State Prize of 1971 in the field of science and technology ( November 5, 1971 ) - for the development and implementation in clinical practice of kidney transplants ^[10]
• Honorary Citizen of Moscow ( September 3, 1997 ) - in connection with the celebration of the 850th anniversary of the founding of the city of Moscow, for outstanding services to the city and citizens of Moscow ^[11]
• 1997 Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology ( April 6, 1998 ) - for the development and implementation in clinical practice of heart transplantation ^[12]
• The honorary title “Honorary Citizen of the Ryazan Region ( January 24, 2002 ) - for high achievements in the field of healthcare, a great personal contribution to improving medical services for the residents of the Ryazan Region ^[13]
• Prize named after A.N. Bakulev (2003) - “ for the creation of a new direction - clinical transplantology ”
• The State Prize of the Russian Federation of 2002 in the field of science and technology ( December 13, 2003 ) - for the development of the main provisions of the problem of surgical treatment of aneurysms of the ascending section and the aortic arch ^[14]
• Gratitude of the Mayor of Moscow ( November 8, 2006 ) - for his outstanding personal contribution to world and domestic surgery, great social and pedagogical work, and in connection with the 75th birthday ^[15]
• 2007 Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (posthumous) ( February 27, 2008 ) - for liver transplantation as a radical method of treating severe liver diseases in adults and children - the creation and implementation of a new direction in Russian healthcare ^[16]

In 1998, the name "Surgeon Valery Shumakov" was assigned to a star in the constellation Scorpio. ^[17]

In 2001, in the Shilov Secondary School No. 1 of the village of Shilovo, Ryazan Region , where he studied during the war, a memorial plaque was opened stating that Shumakov studied here.

In 2009, the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs was renamed by the order of the Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation to the Academician V. I. Shumakov Federal Research Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs.

In 2011, on the occasion of the scientist’s 80th birthday, in Moscow, on the Shchukinskaya Street , next to the building of the Academician V. I. Shumakov Federal Scientific Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs, the Monument to the surgeon Valery Shumakov by sculptor Denis Stritovich was opened ^[18] .

In 2012, the Russian Post issued a stamp with the image of V.I. Shumakov. Denomination 15 p. Portrait of V. I. Shumakov on the background of a cardiogram and a badge of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called ^[19] .

Father: Shumakov Ivan Andreevich (1900-1965).

Mother: Natalia A. Shumakova (Barskova) (1900-1975).

Spouse: Kalitievskaya Natalia Mikhailovna, anesthetist.

Son: Dmitry Shumakov (b. 1967), doctor, head of the department of the Academician V. I. Shumakov Federal Research Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs.

Daughter: Olga V. Shumakova (b. 1963), an employee of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Grandchildren: Natalia (born 1993), Cyril (born 1996), Maria (born 1996), Valeria (born 1998), Ivan (born 2004).

• Shumakov, Valery Ivanovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Biography on www.peoples.ru
• Obituary
• Radio interview with Valery Shumakov. 2004 year