The great cardiac surgeon, academician Valery Shumakov, who saved thousands of lives, has died. Honorary citizens of the Ryazan region. The struggle for the survival of the institute and social activities.

Valery Ivanovich Shumakov(November 9, 1931, Moscow - January 27, 2008, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian transplantologist, teacher. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1994) and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (1988). Hero of Socialist Labor (1990). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1971).

Education

Graduated high school No. 330 in Moscow.

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

In 1956-1959, he was a graduate student in 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 artificial circulation in open correction of heart defects).

In 1959 he defended his thesis on the topic “Surgical correction of mitral valve insufficiency”, and in 1965 - his doctorate, in which he systematized data on the diameters of the human cardiac ostia after excision of natural heart valves. The values ​​​​shown in it formed the basis for the standard sizes of domestic ball mechanical prosthetic heart valves.

Career (main stages)

• 1963-1966 - senior researcher at the Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery of the USSR Ministry of Health.
• 1966-1969 - head of the artificial heart and circulatory support laboratory of the institute. (confirmed with the rank of professor in 1969).
• 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 Russian Federation.

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. Author of three scientific discoveries, more than 20 monographs, 450 scientific papers, 200 inventions. Since 1994, he has been the editor-in-chief of the journal “Bulletin of Transplantology and Artificial Organs.” In 1995, Russia’s first “Guide to Transplantology” was published, edited by V.I. Shumakov.

Until the end of his life, he headed the department of Physics of Living Systems at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, which he founded.

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

Awards

• Hero of Socialist Labor (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 26, 1990, Order of Lenin and Hammer and Sickle Medal) - for outstanding contribution to the development of Soviet transplantology and its application in practice, fruitful scientific and social activities
• Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called (November 3, 2001) - for outstanding achievements in the field of health and medical science
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (April 12, 1999) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic transplantology, the creation and introduction of artificial organs into clinical practice, fruitful scientific and social activities
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (March 20, 1995) - for outstanding services in healthcare and medical science, achievements in the field of transplantology and artificial organs
• Medal “In Memory of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow” (1997)
• Honored Inventor of the RSFSR (1978)
• USSR State Prize 1971 in the field of science and technology (November 5, 1971) - for the development and implementation of kidney transplantation into clinical practice
• Honorary Citizen of the City 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
• Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation 1997 in the field of science and technology (April 6, 1998) - for the development and implementation of heart transplantation into clinical practice
• State Prize of the Russian Federation 2002 in the field of science and technology (December 13, 2003) - for developing the main provisions of the problem surgical treatment aneurysms of the ascending aorta and aortic arch
• Gratitude from the Mayor of Moscow (November 8, 2006) - for outstanding personal contribution to world and domestic surgery, great public and pedagogical work and in connection with the 75th anniversary of his birth
• Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation 2007 in the field of science and technology (posthumously) (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

Memory

In 1998, the name “Surgeon Valery Shumakov” was assigned to a star in the constellation Scorpio.

In 2001, in Shilovskaya secondary school No. 1 in the village of Shilovo, Ryazan region, where he studied during the war, a memorial plaque was unveiled stating that Shumakov studied here.

In 2009, the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, by order of the Minister of Health and social development Russia was renamed the Federal Scientific Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after Academician V. I. Shumakov

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

In 2012, Russian Post issued a stamp with the image of V.I. Shumakov. Denomination 15 rubles. Portrait of V. I. Shumakov against the background of a cardiogram and the sign of the Order of St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called.

Family

Father: Shumakov Ivan Andreevich (1900-1965).

Mother: Shumakova Natalya Alekseevna (Barskova) (1900-1975).

Spouse: Natalya Mikhailovna Kalitievskaya, anesthesiologist.

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

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

Grandchildren: Natalya (b. 1993), Kirill (b. 1996), Maria (b. 1996), Valeria (b. 1998), Ivan (b. 2004).

On January 27, at the age of 77, the famous cardiac surgeon, director of the Research Institute of Transplantology of Artificial Organs Valery Shumakov died.

“The departure of Shumakov orphaned the entire transplantology industry. Valery Ivanovich has no equal. And this is very a big problem find him a worthy replacement. Shumakov cannot be replaced,” said President of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Mikhail Davydov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the family and friends of Valery Ivanovich.

His father Ivan Andreevich was a civil engineer, his mother Natalya Alekseevna was a housewife. In 1941, Ivan Andreevich went to the front. He was lucky - he went through the entire war and remained alive. And Valery lived in Moscow with his mother throughout the war years.

At school until the eighth grade, the future academic preferred volleyball to textbooks. But when it came to a subject called Human Anatomy and Physiology, everything changed. “I picked up the textbook, leafed through it - and it was as if some kind of epiphany came,” he said. “Everything was interesting to me: how difficult it turns out that a person is structured.”

It was then that a strong desire was born to go to study to become a doctor, and not just to become a doctor, but to become a surgeon. None of his relatives were involved in medicine, and where the young man’s passion for medicine came from is anyone’s guess.

After school in 1950, he entered the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenov, who graduated with honors.
Then, in the 50s, L. Bockeria, B. Konstantinov, G. Soloviev, I. Kirpatovsky, who later became famous surgeons, studied at First Med. All of them came from the circle at the Department of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery, which was headed by Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovanov. He noticed a capable student Valery Shumakov and invited him to graduate school.
In graduate school, Valery Ivanovich continued his work on the problems of heart surgery, which he began at the institute. He developed new method treatment of one of the acquired heart defects - mitral valve insufficiency. It was so original that it attracted the attention of the famous surgeon, one of the pioneers of Russian cardiac surgery, academician Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky. Meeting V.I. Shumakova with B.V. Petrovsky became a turning point in his future fate - he invited the young doctor to work in his academic group at the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences as a junior researcher.

Shumakov’s professional fate took another sharp turn when Petrovsky invited his student to head the kidney transplant department, which he intended to create at his institute. Valery Ivanovich recalled: “Before that, I had only done cardiovascular surgery and said that I didn’t know the problem of kidney transplantation at all. My teacher’s answer was laconic - if you don’t know, then you will know...”

Shumakov quickly managed to put the kidney transplant on stream, but his dream remained to perform a heart transplant.

Valery Ivanovich worked next to his teacher for about 15 years. These were the years when open heart operations were just starting, when operations with artificial circulation were introduced into the clinic. That is why he was entrusted with mastering the operation of heart-lung devices. After an internship in the USA, Shumakov was entrusted with the first independent open-heart operations. This time became the beginning for Valery Ivanovich long journey to realize his dream - a heart transplant.

In the early 1960s, artificial heart valves began to be used in clinics in the USSR. The first domestic developments were inferior to foreign ones, and Shumakov began creating high-quality artificial heart valves together with leading specialists from military-industrial complex enterprises. As a result, since 1963, in domestic heart surgery they began to use the method developed by V.I. Shumakov together with B.P. Zverev ball mitral valve prosthesis. Its design turned out to be so successful that it had no equal for about 20 years, until the next generation of prosthetic heart valves appeared. For this development, Valery Ivanovich in 1966 received his first of 200 invention certificates, for which later in 1978 he was awarded the honorary title: Honored Inventor of the RSFSR. In 1965, Shumakov defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Heart valve replacement.”

In 1966-1969, he headed the laboratory of the artificial heart and assisted circulation of the Scientific Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery of the USSR Ministry of Health. In 1969-1974, Shumakov served as head of the department of transplantation and artificial organs. Since 1974, he was director of the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

A general cardiac surgeon, Valery Shumakov is one of the founders of domestic clinical transplantology; for the first time in the country, he successfully performed a heart, liver and pancreas transplant, as well as a two-stage heart transplant.

The first heart transplant ended in failure - the transplanted organ worked well, but the patient's kidneys failed. Doctors who had no experience in treating such patients took a long time to decide how to carry out therapy, and were late. After this, as Shumakov said, he was “hinted from above that there might be trouble if there were further failures.” The second operation was the first successful. The next day there was a phone call from the ministry, and then the inspectors arrived. “They started asking me. I said: “Why ask? Come and look." They changed one deputy minister's clothes and took him to the box to the patient, who could already speak. When he came out of there, he immediately called the Central Committee and reported everything. After he hung up, he said that they congratulated me on a successful operation. I thought to myself: what if she was unsuccessful?”

Valery Shumakov had many students. Now this school includes 50 doctors of science and over 120 candidates of science, it is represented by various specialists (medics, biologists, engineers, mathematicians and physicists), in different regions Russia and neighboring countries.

His wife, Natalya Mikhailovna, who worked as an anesthesiologist for many years, is now retired. Daughter Olga is an art critic and works at the Tretyakov Gallery. Son Dmitry followed in his father’s footsteps, became an excellent surgeon and now heads the department at the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs.

By Shumakov’s own admission, in his work he always walked on the edge of the possible, adhered to his motto: “Forward and not a step back!” In life I loved excitement and speed, but I never got behind the wheel in a car: “I have enough risk at the operating table!”

As the director of the Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after. A.N. Bakuleva Leo Bokeria, “he himself was very kind by nature. Cheerful, subtle. With a very developed sense humor. Very hospitable. And the person to whom they were drawn."

The famous surgeon’s work schedule was intense until the very end. It is advisable to operate, he said, every day, excluding Saturdays and Sundays: “Sometimes there is a sanitary day when we do not operate. But these empty days are often compensated for by night transplants. It is impossible to create a schedule for transplantations: we have to operate when donor organs arrive.” .

Valery Shumakov’s student, head of the kidney and liver transplantology department of the Moscow Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, Yan Masyuk, said that Shumakov before last day was at the clinic. “He died suddenly, he died in his clinic. Just recently he was operating. Just a few days ago. And when he could not operate, he was worried about how the operations were going,” Masyuk said.

The material was prepared by the online editors of www.rian.ru based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

For the first time in Russia, he successfully performed a heart, liver and pancreas transplant. It was Shumakov who created the science of temporary artificial organs that support the impaired functions of vital human organs. On January 27, at the 77th year of his life, Valery Ivanovich died suddenly. AiF publishes one of the last interviews with the famous surgeon.

No crime

Valery Ivanovich, a lot is said about the lack of money in medicine, but there is another problem - there are not enough donor organs, so patients die.

There are always not enough donors everywhere. But since in our country the press has inflated stories related to the abduction and murder of people for organs to an incredible scale, all this affects the work of transplantology. These publicized scandals have had a dramatic impact on the decline in the number of organ donations. There was even a moment when their number was zero. And sick people died without any hope of salvation.

But do you agree that transplantation (organ transplantation) is the most criminalized in our country?

I don't agree. Not a single case has been proven in Russia. In my opinion, the situation in our country is generally the least favorable for the development of criminal methods of procuring donor organs: private clinics do not have the right to engage in transplantation. Imagine: in our institute, where almost a thousand people work, there would be people who wanted to perform such operations. But excuse me: one operation requires the presence of about 20 people. Therefore, it would not have gone unnoticed. Some people think that they can make money from us by selling this or that part of the body. It happens that people come to our institute who are in dire need of money and offer to sell their kidney or something else. We have to explain that according to the law this is impossible. If we buy organs from them, we ourselves will be subject to criminal charges. There were cases when people were taken to Moldova or Turkey and operations were performed on them there. But our medicine has nothing to do with these trips.

Pig heart

- Is there anything that can be done against donor organs and thereby solve the problem of their shortage?

There are three solutions to the problem of organ donor shortage. Firstly, the creation of artificial organs that would functionally correspond to natural ones. Secondly, organ transplantation from animals, primarily from pigs. Because our closest relatives - monkeys - are very small and also suffer from specific infections. And pigs can be artificially bred almost sterile and of any size. And even choose your own pig for each person. The only problem is that the pig’s heart takes root in the body and works long time. The third thing is probably organ cloning. The most faithful and beautiful path solutions to this problem. It is also possible to grow any organ from stem cells. But for now there is more talk on this topic than action is being taken. That is why the West is ahead of our medicine. Americans may be the first to bring artificial hearts to clinical use. They are ahead for one simple reason - ours Scientific research are practically not funded, while millions are allocated there to solve the problem cardiovascular diseases. And that means for state security. We really have better developments in the field of artificial hearts than the Americans. And if we had the necessary funds, we would short time would bring our hearts to clinical use.

- But I know that many Western citizens go to Russia to get organ transplants...

Several years ago there were many cases when Western doctors intercepted our patients and did everything to prevent us from performing operations. Once, a rich man from Germany needed a kidney transplant. Before that, he stood in line at his German clinic for three years. He came to our institute with his personal doctor so that he can evaluate our capabilities. They liked the level of our work and agreed to the operation. But the German said that he needed two weeks to settle all his affairs. He went to Germany, where he immediately received a call from the clinic and received a transplant within a few days. Nobody needs competition.

- What do you recommend doing to reduce the risk of ending up in a hospital bed in the transplant department?

First of all, lead a correct lifestyle. And, you know, it’s very difficult to lead. I myself live by an anecdote: “A patient comes to a doctor and asks: “Doctor, what kind of life should I lead in order to live 100 years?” The doctor says: “5 thousand dollars for a consultation.” The patient pays. Doctor: “Don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t eat fatty foods, don’t eat sweets, don’t swear, don’t fight, live only with your wife.” The patient wrote everything down and asks: “You probably also follow all these rules?” Doctor: “Even if you paid me 10 times more, I wouldn’t live like that!” That's how I am. Shoemaker without shoes.

Valery Shumakov was born in Moscow on November 9, 1931. His father was a civil engineer, and his mother was a housewife. In 1956 he graduated with honors from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute. I. M. Sechenov. Then he went to graduate school at the same institute at the department of operative surgery and topographic anatomy, from which he graduated in 1959. In graduate school, he developed a technique for palliative treatment of mitral valve insufficiency. B.V. Petrovsky, a luminary of Russian cardiac surgery, drew attention to the ideas of the young doctor. Petrovsky applied his method in treating patients. He took the young talent into his academic group. In 1966, Shumakov defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic of heart valve replacement. Experts used the ball prosthesis he improved for another 20 years. Under the leadership of Petrovsky, he worked on issues of artificial circulation during open correction of heart defects. Later, Shumakov began developing an artificial heart. From 1963 to 1966 he was a senior research fellow clinical and experimental surgery, from 1966 to 1969 - head of the laboratory of artificial heart and assisted circulation, from 1969 to 1974 was head of the department of transplantology and artificial organs of the Research Institute. Subsequently, he became director of the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs of the Ministry of Health of the USSR and Russia. Shumakov founded the Department of Physics of Living Systems at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, which he himself headed until the end of his life. In 1965, Petrovsky performed the first successful transplantation of a donor kidney. After this operation, transplant centers began to be created. In the 70s, Shumakov began to head a Soviet-American group developing an artificial heart. In the late 70s, Shumakov focused on the surgical problems of liver transplantation. In 1977, he was the first to perform a heterotopic transplant of the left lobe of the liver into the left iliac region. In 1979, Shumakov performed the first successful clinical islet cell transplantation in the USSR. In 1987, Shumakov performed the first heart transplant operation in Russia. With no less success, he performed a pancreas and liver transplant and a two-stage heart transplant. In 1990, Shumakov was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, he was awarded the Order of Lenin and Golden medal"Hammer and sickle". In 1997, he and a group of employees were awarded the Russian Government Prize. Shumakov was a scientist, an inventor, and a developer of several dozen technologies and methods in transplantology. He made 3 discoveries, wrote 20 monographs and more than 450 scientific papers, and has more than 200 inventions. Throughout his life, Shumakov acted as an active surgeon. He died of heart failure on January 27, 2008. The leader of Russian transplantology was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

For more than 33 years, from July 1974 to January 2007, V.I. Shumakov permanently headed the Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, which now bears his name.

In July 1974, by order of the USSR Minister of Health B.V. Petrovsky V.I. Shumakov was appointed director of the previously created Institute of Organ and Tissue Transplantation of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1978, the institute was renamed the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs of the USSR Ministry of Health; IN AND. Shumakov headed it continuously until January 2008.

Under the leadership of V.I. Shumakov Institute has come a long way and has become a leading scientific - research center, developing biological and clinical problems of transplantology, having a multifunctional clinical base equipped with modern equipment, where a wide range of transplantological and other high-tech operations are performed. On the initiative and with the direct participation of V.I. Shumakov began to actively develop a new direction: the development, creation and use of artificial organs, which is inextricably linked with the further progress of transplantology.

On January 14, 2009, by order of the Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, the Institute was renamed into the Federal Scientific Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after Academician V.I. Shumakov" of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia.

IN AND. Shumakov as a scientist was distinguished by the breadth of his creative aspirations, exceptional clarity of presentation of his thoughts, deep and comprehensive study of the problem, and his recommendations for treating the patient were always justified from pathogenetic and physiological positions. He played a leading role in the development of clinical transplantology in our country, in the development, creation and implementation of artificial organs (heart valves, pacemakers, artificial heart, artificial left ventricle, circulatory support devices, etc.) into clinical practice. For more than 20 years V.I. Shumakov, together with M. DeBakey, led the work within the framework of the Intergovernmental Soviet-American Agreement on the development and research of an artificial heart, which served as a powerful impetus for the creation of mechanical circulatory support systems.

His scientific heritage is unusually large and multifaceted. IN AND. Shumakov is the author of three scientific discoveries, more than 20 monographs, more than 450 scientific papers, more than 200 inventions both in the field of clinical medicine and at the intersection of medicine and exact sciences. In 1995, under his editorship, the first “Manual on Transplantology” in Russia was published. Most significant scientific works IN AND. Shumakova: “Modeling of physiological systems of the body”, “Preservation of organs”, “Methods, modes and optimal control of the processes of preservation and restoration of cardiac transplant activity”, “Assisted circulation”, “Artificial heart”, “Artificial organs”, “Physiological problems of transplantology and use of artificial organs", "Liver transplantation", "Pancreatic islet cell transplantation", "Modification of the surgical technique of heart transplantation", "Rejection of a transplanted heart", "Heart transplantation", "Disease coronary arteries transplanted heart", etc.

Valery Ivanovich Shumakov was a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

IN AND. Shumakov took the initiative to organize and create the journal “Bulletin of Transplantology and Artificial Organs,” of which he was the editor-in-chief from the founding of the journal (in 1994) until the end of his days.

IN AND. Shumakov was the president of the interregional public organization"Scientific Society of Transplantologists", Chairman of the Scientific Council on Transplantology and Artificial Organs of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Chief Transplantologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Member of the Board of the All-Russian Society of Cardiovascular Surgeons, Member of the International Society of Surgeons, Honorary Member of the French Society of Transplantologists, Member of the International Society artificial organs, member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, member of the International Society of Transplantology, member of the American Society of Thoracic Surgeons, member of the American Society of Artificial Organs, member of the European Society of Artificial Organs, member of the European Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons, member of the European Society of Cardiovascular Surgeons; for 20 years he was the coordinator of work within the framework of the Intergovernmental Agreement between the USSR and the USA on artificial heart and circulatory support.

Activities of V.I. Shumakova was awarded Government awards and received wide public recognition.

In 1971, Valery Ivanovich, as part of a team of leading domestic clinical scientists led by Academician B.V. Petrovsky was awarded his first government award - the USSR State Prize for the development and implementation of kidney transplantation into clinical practice.

March 12, 1987 V.I. Shumakov performed the first successful heart transplant in the USSR. In 1998, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences V.I. Shumakov and a group of employees of the institute he led were awarded the Council of Ministers Prize for the development and implementation of heart transplantation into clinical practice.

The state and the public highly appreciated the merits of the Honored Inventor of the RSFSR (1978), Hero Socialist Labor(1990), Honorary Citizen of the City of Moscow (1997): V.I. Shumakov was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (1995), II degree (1999), and the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called (2001).

Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation V.I. Shumakov was also awarded numerous public prizes, awards, honorary medals and orders: the Academician B.P. Petrovsky “Outstanding Surgeon of the World”, a memorial medal named after Academician P.K. Anokhin, the Order of “Glory of Russia”, the Order of “Sergius of Radonezh” III degree, the Order of “Lomonosov”, “Star of Vernadsky” I degree, etc.

IN AND. Shumakov was the founder and leader of a powerful scientific school - he trained more than 50 doctors and 120 candidates of medical and biological sciences. His students - doctors, biologists, engineers, mathematicians and physicists - work in different regions of Russia and neighboring countries. IN different years they were all united around V.I. Shumakov has an ardent desire to help solve the problems of cardiac surgery and transplantation of vital organs, to promote the development and use of artificial organs. IN AND. Shumakov became a Teacher for them. Possessing extraordinary determination, indomitable will and energy, breadth of scientific vision, he set the pace, direction and at the same time provided his students with freedom of creative search, ignited, tempered and shaped their professionalism.

Currently, the Federal Scientific Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after Academician V.I. Shumakov" of the Ministry of Health of Russia, headed by Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences S.V. Gauthier is the leading scientific institution that coordinates research on the problems of organ and tissue transplantation carried out in the country, as well as the training of medical and scientific personnel.

Preserving and developing the traditions laid down by V.I. Shumakov, the management and staff of the Center are convinced that creative activities in the field of development of clinical transplantology, creation of new technologies, and preservation of people's health are the best tribute to his memory. Today this great man is not among us, but there is a Federal Scientific Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs, which bears his name. Eat scientific school- a whole galaxy of mature and young scientists developing the projects he started, developing the foundations laid by Valery Ivanovich, continuing his work. New traditions are being created, among them the tradition of holding all-Russian conferences “Shumakov Readings”, dedicated to Valery Ivanovich’s birthday.

The first Shumakov readings were held on November 9, 2010 within the framework of the V All-Russian Congress of Transplantologists and were devoted to the problems of cardiovascular surgery and heart transplantation. November 9, 2011 on the 80th anniversary of the birth of Academician V.I. Shumakov at the Federal Scientific Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after. Academician V.I. Shumakov, ceremonial events were held dedicated to the memory of Valery Ivanovich, in which representatives of the authorities took part state power, Ministry of Health of Russia, Russian Academy Sciences, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, prominent political and public figures, doctors and scientists, his friends and relatives.

The most important event of this day was the opening of the monument to Academician V.I. Shumakov in the park in front of the building of the Federal Scientific Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs, which bears his name.