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        Academician Vladimer Burakovsky
 Jubilee Dedicated to 80 Years

  

В.И. БураковскийImmortals are mortal, and Mortals - immortal:
they die with deathsof each other,
and they live with deaths of each other

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Academician V. Burakovsky was an outstanding cardiosurgent, world-wide famouse scientist, one of the founders of modern cardiosurgery. He graduated the Tbilisi State Medical Institute in 1946. He was awarded with a great number of State rewards, among which were: State Prize (1979), Lenin Prize (1976), Hero of Socialist Labour (1982), Honoured Scientist. For his outstanding intput into the development of cardiovascular surgery he was rewarded with Bakulev Prize posthumous. The Institute of Cardio-Surgery was called after him, when he died.

The staff of the Bakulev Scientific and Research Institute of Cardio-Vaskular Surgery, headed by Acad. Burakovsky since 1966, adopted and spread humanizm and generosity. He, himself was emotionally generous, and his inner power and dedication to his work were a simbol of human dignity and love of mankind for all his collegues.

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