TURKEVICH KOSTYANTYN IVANOVICH THE FIRST HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS, GYNECOLOGY AND BIOTECHNIQUES OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION

Authors

  • Valentina Borodinya National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine image/svg+xml
  • Lydia Lobodina National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine image/svg+xml

Abstract

The life course of Kostyantyn Ivanovich Turkevich - the first
head of department of obstetrics, gynecology and bio-technology of animal
reproduction of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of
Ukraine is highlighted. The biographical material is presented in chronological
order. For the first time, based on the data of the funds of the State Archives of
Kyiv, it became possible to document the biography and work of an
extraordinary person, an unsurpassed doctor of veterinary medicine, practice,
inquisitive scientist, decent worker and administrator. From 1923 to 1951, K. I.
Turkevich worked at the Veterinary Faculty first from the Kyiv Veterinary and
Zootechnical Institute (KVZI), and from 1930 - the Kyiv Veterinary Institute
(KVI). He started his labor activity as an assistant of Department of Operative
Surgery, and subsequently worked as the Head of Department of Operative
Surgery, Department of General and Special Surgery and Obstetrics at the
KVZI. Turkevich K. I. was repeatedly appointed to the position of dean of the
veterinary faculty, he was the head of the educational part of the KVZI, worked
as a deputy director of the scientific department and head of the department
for the study of cattle diseases of the Kiev Scientific Veterinary Institute
(KSVI), the head of the Department of Veterinary obstetrics KVI. While
Kostyantin Ivanovich was at various positions, he always took an active part in
helping production, published a number of scientific works.
Keywords: K. I. Turkevich, veterinary obstetrician, surgeon,
historiography

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2019-02-20

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