Max Solomonovich Kushakovsky

Abstract

   The article is devoted to the centenary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honorary Cardiologist of Russia, Professor Max Solomonovich Kushakovsky. M. S. Kushakovsky made an invaluable contribution to the development of functional diagnostics in our country, especially to the development of electrocardiography and electrophysiology of the heart, as well as to the development of echocardiography as a method that allows assessing not only not only structural features of the heart, but also features of intracardiac and central hemodynamics. The works of M. S. Kushakovsky contributed to the solution of many problems related to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, arterial hypertension, cardiomyopathies and other diseases of the heart. M. S. Kushakovsky’s monographs serve as a source of knowledge for many generations of Russian doctors. A monument on his grave at the Bolsheokhtensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg and a bas-relief on the building of the Pokrovskaya Hospital in St. Petersburg, built on donations of the city’s doctors, are dedicated to the memory of Professor M. S. Kushakovsky. The name of M. S. Kushakovsky was assigned to the Department of Cardiology, which he led during his lifetime.