The Centenary of the Birth of Professor Georgy I. Dorofeev

The article is devoted to one of the leaders of the Leningrad school of gastroenterologists of the second half of the last century. For almost two decades, he headed the oldest department of the Military Medical Academy — the Department of Hospital Therapy, turning it into one of the famous gastroenterological centers of the country of that period. The author offers the reader the complete biography of this famous scientist. One of the most important scientific merits of G.I. Dorofeev is the creation of an original scientific internist school. Many followers of it headed and continue to head the leading scientific centers of the country.