Oleksiy Kolomychenko

Oleksiy Sydorowytsch Kolomijtschenko ( Ukrainian Олексій Сидорович Коломійченко , Russian Алексей Сидорович Коломийченко Alexei Sidorovitch Kolomijtschenko ; born March 18, ^jul. / The thirtieth March  1898 ^greg. In Shpola , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 17th September 1974 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian otorhinolaryngologist and university professor.

Life

Oleksij Kolomijtschenko was born in Shpola in what is now the Ukrainian Cherkassy Oblast as the younger brother of the future surgeon Mychajlo Kolomijtschenko ( Олексій Михайло Коломійченко ; 1892–1973). There he attended school and graduated from the First Ukrainian Gymnasium .

Institute for Otolaryngology, Nose and Throat Medicine, in which Kolomychenko worked from 1960 to 1974

In 1919 he began studying at the law faculty of the University of Kiev , but after a month he moved to the medical faculty of the same university, today's National Medical University named after OO Bohomolets . After completing his studies, he stayed for a short time at the surgical department of the institute and then switched to the Isjaslav District Hospital in what was then Okrug Shepetivka as an internal trainer . From 1928 he was employed at the Kiev Institute for Advanced Doctors and between 1944 and 1966 he headed the Department of Otolaryngology of the Institute for Advanced Medical Education On June 7, 1960, on his initiative, the Institute for ENT Medicine, which is now named after him, was founded in Kiev whose first director he became and where he worked until the end of his life.

Kolomychenko made a significant contribution to the development of the tonsil problem, to the diagnosis and treatment of hearing impairments, inflammatory processes of the middle ear and intracranial complications. Kolomychenko trained 16 doctors and 40 candidates in medical sciences and wrote 200 scientific papers, including eight monographs. Even though he held a high position in the Soviet Union, he refused all his life to join the Communist Party. He died in Kiev at the age of 76 and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

Honors and memberships

Oleksij Kolomychenko received numerous honors. Including:

• Lenin Prize (1964) for the development and implementation of hearing aids for secondary surgery in otosclerosis
• 2 × the Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Since 1967 corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• The institute for ENT medicine bears his name and contains a museum about his life and work
• In 1976 the district hospital in his hometown was named after him and his brother Mychajlo and a memorial was erected in their honor.
• On December 5, 2018, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a 2- hryvnia silver coin in his memory .

Web links

• Entry on Oleksij Kolomychenko in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Oleksij Kolomijtschenko on the website of the Cherkassy regional organization of the National Union for Regional Studies of Ukraine; accessed on March 12, 2019 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ entry to Oleksiy Kolomijtschenko in the Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine ; accessed on March 12, 2019 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} 50 years ago a deaf professor founded the Institute for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine in Kiev on unian.ua on June 10, 2010; accessed on March 12, 2019 (Ukrainian)
4. ↑ Entry on Oleksij Kolomijtschenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 12, 2019 (Ukrainian)
5. ↑ Entry on the official website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on March 12, 2019 (Ukrainian)
6. ↑ Commemorative coins of Ukraine on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine; accessed on March 13, 2019