Sviatoslav fyodorov biography channels

He began studying at the Air Force Special School in Rostov when while unsuccessfully jumping off the footboard of the tram, he fell, and his leg got caught under the wheel which caused loss of his foot. And now, how was he to live?

 

Knowing he would never become a pilot, he applied to the Rostov Medical Institute.

In , he graduated from the institute and worked in the village of Veshenskaya, Rostov Region, and later to the Urals, to Lysva, where he became a surgeon at a local hospital. His enthusiasm and interest in the profession grew.

Just 6 years after he left the institute, he defended his PhD thesis, and in in Cheboksary (where he then worked) he performed a revolutionary operation: an intraocular lens (IOL) implant. In the West, such operations were beginning, but in the USSR they were considered charlatanism, and he was fired from his job.

 

In May , at the invitation of British ophthalmologist Sir Harold Ridley (the 1st in the world to implant an artificial l