140-th anniversary of the birth of the first in Russia head of the department of surgery, a well-known radiobiologist, geneticist and oncologist, Professor Nadezhda Alekseevna Dobrovolskaya (on the 100th anniversary of the Voronezh State medical university)

Dobrovol'skaya Nadezhda was born in 1878 in Kiev province. After graduating with a gold medal of the women's gymnasium in Kiev Women's medical Institute in Petrograd, worked as an Intern in the clinic of Professor M. S. Subbotin (1902-1904), later a country doctor . 1907 – the assistant to the dissector, assistant Professor of Women's medical Institute (until 1917), supernumeraries medical surgical Academy in Petrograd (from 1914). Since 1911 – a doctor of medicine. In 1912 N.. A. suggested method of joining vessels of different diameter, "end-to-end" crossing them obliquely; I applied the hair to perform a vascular suture. 24 APR 1917 N..Dobrovolskaya apply in Tartu University about acceptance as a privatdozent at the Department of surgery. 14 Oct 1918 – the Board of the University of Voronezh electing her to the chair of surgical pathology with the dressing and the doctrine about dislocations and fractures of the medical faculty and became the first woman to lead the Department of surgery. In 1919, she described the symptom that got her name – a decrease in heart rate when Paltseva the compression of the artery proximal to arteriovenous fistula. To link their fate with the Soviet authorities she did not dare, and soon left Voronezh. N.. Dobrovolskaya served as a doctor in Wrangel's army, which retreated in the Crimea and were evacuated to Egypt (1920-1922). In 1921 N.. Take the art to the newly opened in France, the laboratory organised by the Pasteur Institute and the radium Institute (later, the Institute Curie), which was first headed by Professor Claude REGO, and then N.. Dobrovolskaya. It describes the brachyury mutation in mice is becoming one of the pioneers in understanding the development of the body as changes in gene expression, creates several pure lines of mice as models of human diseases. Nadezhda was a member of the boards of the society of Russian doctors of Mechnikov, Russian academic group, Russian section of the International Federation of University women, Association of Russian doctors abroad. Collaborated in the Brotherhood of the Martyr Albania and St. Sergius. N.. Dobrovolska has authored over one hundred scientific papers. In 1937 she was awarded the French Academy of Sciences for research in the field of hereditary cancer. In 1954, at the age of 76 N..Dobrovolskaya is dead.