About the Fundamental Library of the Military medical academy named after S.M. Kirov.
BALTIYSK LIBRARIES FOR NAVY SAILORS
Baltic centralized library system− is a municipal library in the very west of Russia. Baltiysk is a city where people live, serve and work wonderful people. The Baltiysk library understands very well the importance of educating all categories of readers. I’ll tell you about one direction of our work: partnership and cooperation with seafarers Navy.
The information center and the youth subscription of the Central City Hospital are active participants in the Baltiysk Libraries for Navy Sailors program.
Program objectives:
- increasing the literacy and general cultural level of sailors of the Baltic Fleet
- formation of high civil, spiritual and moral guidelines and historical self-awareness of this category of readers
- stimulating reading as a necessary condition for the development of the nation
- formation of mechanisms to support and revive interest in reading among Navy sailors.
Throughout its 65-year history, librarians came to warships and visited sailors with talented writers from the Kaliningrad land. But for the last three years we have been providing assistance not only in terms of meetings with writers. Now we organize libraries on warships.
Where did it all begin... More than two years ago I served under a contract for patrol ship“Yaroslav the Wise” young sailor - Andrey Skorobogatov. Andrei himself read a lot, but he understood that the book was also necessary for his comrades. He came to our library with a request to organize a library on the ship. Not just give books to read, but tell, teach, create a real library with an account book, reader forms, etc. Since then, we have been waiting for the guys from the ship as our dearest guests. The population of Baltiysk brings us a gift a large number of books, and we share these books with sailors. We know that literature is very necessary and will be read from cover to cover. Andrey transferred the same practice of working with our library to his new place of duty - SKR
"Intrepid". They say that the future lies in new technologies. But the book has its own path, and while guys like Andrey rush to the library, the BOOK has a future. In 2015, there were already several young lieutenants from the corvettes “Boikiy”, “Steregushchiy”, “Soobrazitelny”, etc. came with a request to organize a library on their ships. Employees information center libraries are postponed interesting books, magazines, conduct consultations with young lieutenants on how best to organize a library. We share books and library equipment with them, and talk about our work plans. Sailors spend a lot of time at sea. The issue of leisure is very acute. Now not a single event is complete without our readers in uniform. We hold presentations of books, new exhibitions, literary meetings and virtual excursions, competitions and quizzes. There is hardly a more appreciative audience than sailors conscript service Baltic Fleet. After all, behind the hustle and bustle of military everyday life, there is often a lack of interesting, frank, honest conversations about literature, about life, about family, about duty. At our events they have the opportunity to meet interesting, famous people.
On the Days of Literature in the Kaliningrad Region, we traditionally “land” a “literary landing” on the ships of the Baltic Fleet from the most popular and interesting writers in the region. For such meetings, a hundred or more officers and sailors gather in the wardrooms: live communication is interesting and useful not only for listeners and sailors, but also for guest writers - in the process of communication, fresh ideas for new ideas often appear literary works.
The ships are mainly served by guys from other regions, so special attention is paid to local history literature. Sailors will learn from librarians about the history of the region, about the people who glorified the Kaliningrad region. Thus, at the presentation of the book “It’s not true, a friend does not die” by Kaliningrad authors Yu. Gorin and Yu. Zenkov, accompanied by electronic presentation, the children were told about the sailors who died in August 2000 on the Kursk submarine. Among the submariners was our fellow countryman, Senior Lieutenant Alexander Gudkov. Young, eager to live. You can see how the faces of the young guys freeze when they listen to the last lines of their peers doomed to death, who remained forever young. This is how true patriotism is born, the readiness to defend the Motherland and its interests...
Sailors come to literary hours, dedicated to anniversaries Russian writers and poets. The literary and musical evening “I am all in the light, accessible to all eyes” is dedicated to the life and work of V. Vysotsky. His poems and songs are relevant, modern and, it turns out, are often played with a guitar during relaxation hours in the wardroom. Exposition of the exhibition “Photo Album Great War 1914-1918", literature review, digest presentation dedicated to the centenary of the 1914 war. An “unforgotten and great” program, which was received with great interest by the sailors of Baltiysk. IN THE YEAR OF LITERATURE and the 70th anniversary of the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, we will invite military sailors to events dedicated to significant dates. They will be participants in the “Live and Remember” program of the Central City Hospital named after. V.G. Belinsky, the program of the Kaliningrad Regional Library “Read to Remember”.
Head of the Department for Library Resources, MBUK "BCBS" N.E. Tulchinskaya
Library Military Medical Academy
Address: St. Petersburg, st. Klinicheskaya, 6
Telephone: 292-33-10, 292-32-75
The year the library was founded is 1798, this is the year the Medical-Surgical Academy was founded.
The library was created on the basis of the first public medical library in Russia, founded in 1756 by the director of the Medical-Surgical College P. Z. Kondoidi.
The formation of the fund took place in accordance with the profile of the Academy as a military medical educational and scientific institution, which determined the uniqueness of its fund.
The library possesses the rarest, including first printed editions of European medical literature, one of the most complete collections of Russian medical books and journals of the 18th-20th centuries in the country, with manuscripts of the most prominent representatives of domestic and foreign medicine. She is the sole custodian of a number of foreign military medical journals. The library collection includes the first textbooks on medicine in Russian: “Abbreviated Anatomy” by Professor of the Medical-Surgical Academy P. A. Zagorsky, 1802, “General Surgery” - a guide to teaching surgery by I. F. Bush, 1807, “General Therapy” by I. E. Dyadkovsky, 1836, “Military Camping Medicine” by A. A. Charukovsky, “The Art of Weaving or the Science of Women’s Business” by N. M. Maksimovich-Ambodik, 1784 and a rich collection of printed dissertations, including the first dissertation defended at the academy - Savva Bolshoi, the dissertation of I. P. Pavlov.
A significant part of the fund consists of periodicals. Among them are the first medical journals published in Russia: “St. Petersburg Medical Gazette” (1792), “General Journal medical science"(1811-1816), "Military Medical Journal" from 1823 to the present day, etc.
Capital stock, 1900s.
Reading room, 1900s
Currently, the library's collection consists of 1,900,000 copies of medical, natural science, military and socio-political literature.
The library checks out 360 titles periodicals, including the most important scientific medical journals published in Russia.
The library has access to information resources: Scientific Universal Electronic Library (RUNEB), including full-text scientific medical journals.
Library readers have the opportunity to use full-text educational literature, published by the publishing house GEOTAR Media: “ Digital library medical university. Student Consultant"
In the computer room, an automated search for bibliographic information is carried out in medical databases: “Medlane”, “Russian Medicine”, “Medart”, etc., as well as in the Electronic Library Catalog.
Main fund
Scientific Literature Subscription
Reading room
Library structure
Head of the library
Rudenko Polina Evgenievna
Tel.: 292-33-10
Acquisition department
Head of Department Baskakova Anna Yurievna
Tel.: 292-32-75
Cataloging and Systematization Department
Head of Department Zotikova Natalia Yurievna
Tel.: 292-32-75
Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:00-17:30, Sat. Sun. - day off
Fixed Fund Department
Head of the department Svetlana Evgenievna Lyakhova
Tel.: 292-32-75
Service department
Head of the department Puchkova Elvira Fedorovna
Scientific Literature Subscription
Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12:00-19:00, Sat. 12:00-17:00, Sun. - day off
Reading room
Educational literature subscription
Bibliography Department
Head Chuleyda Tatyana Kimovna
Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12:00-20:00, Sat. 12:00-19:00, Sun. 10:00-17:00
Department of reference and information services by electronic resources
Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12:00-19:00, Sat. 12:00-17:00, Sun. - day off
Library branch (49 town)
Head Berezovskaya Marina Vladimirovna
Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12:00-18:00, Sat. 12:00-17:00, Sun. - day off
Club library
Head Romanova Elena Anatolyevna
Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 11:00-18:00, Sat. Sun. - day off
The library reading room is available for doctors and students medical universities St. Petersburg.
M.M.KIRILLOV
FUNDAMENTAL LIBRARY OF THE MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY NAMED AFTER S.M.KIROV
This is the only library, at least in Leningrad, with such an official and, at the same time, generally accepted name. This is scientific and educational library Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, the one on Pirogovskaya embankment. It is located on the Vyborg side, but its counterpart is the widest water area of the Neva and the Kirov (now Trinity) bridge.
Of course she has her own big story, and you can read about this in reference books, but I will write about it only what I know about it myself. Memories of the academic library can be dear to thousands of its graduates and employees, as well as participants in scientific library collections in Leningrad and all Leningrad residents. This is the oldest medical library in Russia. The year of its creation is 1798.
In my early childhood I lived in Leningrad, my hometown. I was here in 1945, after the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and, of course, saw the Neva. And as an adult, and it was in July 1950, I saw the Neva upon arrival from the Moskovsky station on the tram from Pirogovskaya embankment at the Liteiny Bridge.
The Neva was so huge, deep and swift that the sight of it momentarily overshadowed my entire past and made everything that was to come unimportant. I then walked along the embankment, to which the entrances of the buildings of various departments and the Fundamental Library of the Academy opened, as evidenced by the signs on their walls.
Shocked by what I saw on the embankment, I went from there to the Academy headquarters, which was located nearby, on the street. Lebedeva. Separated from the street by carved metal grill, with a high dome, columns and the coat of arms of the USSR on the pediment, the headquarters was located in the depths of a vast green courtyard, in the center of which a beautiful bust of Sergei Mironovich Kirov rose above a flowerbed.
The paths in the courtyard led to the educational department, where it was announced to me that all applicants would have to pass competitive exams in full, including those who graduated with a medal high school. It was unexpected, but that was the condition.
It was hot in Leningrad in those days, but the Neva remained cold. Entering the academy turned out to be really more difficult than I thought. Every second applicant had a medal for graduating from school. Therefore, I had to take exams on a general basis.
The first was an exam in literature and the Russian language - essay. It took place in the large reading room of the Fundamental Library. This was my first time here. I remember the large windows of the hall overlooking the Neva. Professor Colonel Zaboev supervised the conduct of this exam. This was alarming.
For an essay on the topic “Who Lives Well in Rus'” according to N.A. Nekrasov, I received a grade of “four”. Behind oral exam Literature was also given a “four” (I couldn’t answer who Margarita from Faust was in terms of social status? I said: bourgeois, but it turned out she was from the clergy). In chemistry - "four". This was already on the verge of failure, since the passing score was 17. The physics exam helped me out. In July I was enrolled in the Academy.
Together with other, the same schoolchildren from yesterday in civilian jackets, at the end of August, I went up to the top floor of the hostel on Botkinskaya Street and introduced myself to the head of the course, Lieutenant Colonel m/s B.P. Polikarpov, already middle-aged, short in stature, a thin officer in a tunic, sword belt and boots. On his chest was the Order of the Red Star. “A front-line soldier, like our school principal,” I thought. With this, my military service, which turned out to be 43 years old, began.
Soon our entire course received textbooks from the Educational Department of the Academy's Fundamental Library. The entrance to it was from Klinicheskaya Street. It was the usual thing: we received textbooks. But an amazing librarian worked here - a young woman, Valya, that’s what everyone called her, and everyone at the Academy knew her. Having once seen a reader, she not only remembered him and the books he took, but also everything that concerned him, and unmistakably recognized him when meeting her again in the library or on the street. But there were hundreds of students in our course and from other courses. A unique librarian.
Gradually we began to get acquainted with the bibliographic (catalogs) and reading rooms of the library. On the landing of the second floor of the large staircase to the library, on pedestals there were monuments to the scientists of the Academy who worked here in the 19th century, including N.I. Pirogov, P. Zagorsky and the famous anatomist Buyalsky. The copper of the monuments has become lighter from the touch of hands over a hundred years. I knocked on one of these, as it seemed to me, monoliths. To my surprise, there was emptiness in it. In others it’s the same. It was a revelation for me. Of course, this was how it should have been, but they seemed like monoliths. This illusion arose from the external significance of the monuments. I already knew that the same illusion sometimes arises when meeting certain people. Impressive in appearance, when tested they turn out to be dummies. There was such a time: I was only 17.5 years old, and I was exploring the world.
Time passed, and as classes progressed, we became familiar with the library building and its neighbors at the entrance from the embankment: the emergency room, the surgical clinic, and the department of eye and skin diseases. This is described in detail in the book “My Academy,” published by me in 2010.
It was an amazing time, even the dormitory of our course was located next to the library, so its windows overlooked the cruiser Aurora and the Military Medical Museum of that time.
In those years, I had a memorable meeting with the library with my first teacher, Sergei Borisovich Geiro, associate professor of the department of faculty therapy at the Academy.
It was already 1955. The cycle of subordination in therapy has begun. In our group, it was conducted on the basis of the department of faculty therapy. The teacher was S.B. Geiro. Front-line soldier, m/s colonel, famous hematologist. He personified to the greatest extent the intelligence generally characteristic of the Academy's teaching staff of that time.
Under his leadership, I cared for a serious and complex patient. He was about 50 years old. He suffered from attacks of severe shooting pain in the abdomen, radiating to the spine. In his youth he suffered from syphilis (Wassermann's reaction was positive (+++)). The clinic did not know what was wrong with the patient. I studied the course of his suffering well. More than once I watched as another wave of pain rolled through his body, leaving him exhausted, pale and yellowed. The internal picture of the disease was clear to me to a greater extent than its nature. I drew attention to the consistent coincidence of the timing of pain and anemic crises with the subsequent appearance of hyperbilirubinemia and jaundice. Was the painful attack accompanied by blood loss and hemolysis? In connection with what?
I told about my observations to the teacher whom I found in the reading room of the Fundamental Library. After listening to me, he said that he had made two discoveries today. The first of them concerns the patient, and the second concerns me: “it seems that today another therapist was born.” A couple of days later, he explained to us, the listeners, that the patient presumably had syphilitic mesoaortitis and a dissecting aortic aneurysm. Its delamination was accompanied by blood loss. Soon the patient died due to symptoms of slowly developing cardiac tamponade. At the autopsy, the aorta looked like a three-layer wide stocking along its entire length. What was unclear during the patient’s lifetime became obvious. Each new portion of blood stratified the wall of the aorta, accompanied by crises of anemia and jaundice. The disfigured pulsating organ, hitting the spine, caused severe pain to the patient. All this ended with the rupture of an aortic aneurysm with a gradual breakthrough of blood into the pericardium.
S. B. Geiro was the first of the doctors who saw me among many. It should be noted that clinical training of students was the most important goal and the most effective aspect of training at the Academy of that time. We were taught to think at the patient’s bedside, taught to doubt, to prefer irrational to rational (traditional) thinking. Of course, this required a base.
After graduating from the Academy in 1956, I served for seven years as assigned to the parachute regiment in Ryazan. The city had a citywide library, which I visited while working on my early scientific generalizations. Early library experience was useful, although, of course, this library was far from the Academy's Fundamental Library. Except for the same silence of the reading room, the rustling of pages and the sleeping heads of tired readers on the tables.
In those years, on visits from Ryazan, I visited the Central Medical Library, located in a beautiful mansion on Vosstaniya Square in Moscow. I was rummaging through catalogues. I met the then-famous and later-famous scientists and therapists.
In particular, it was here that I collected literature on chronic recurrent migratory thrombophlebitis, which I observed in one of my patients at the clinic of Professor M.S. Vovsi (Moscow Botkin Hospital), where I then did an internship. M.S. Vovsi, after listening to me, approved my interpretation of this case.
But this library was in some ways inferior to the Leningrad library. She was somehow random and alien to me, but Fundamental library was more complete, familiar and, as it were, summarizing both the bibliographic search and my professional growth. It was always a joy to work there. But the main thing is that it always had very attentive, knowledgeable and intelligent employees who knew the library’s collections well. Unfortunately, I no longer remember their last names. These were real Leningraders.
In the late 50s, I visited the academic library less often. But in 1962, he entered clinical residency not under the department of Professor N.S. Molchanov.
It was an amazing clinic. My immediate supervisor was then still associate professor Evgeniy Vladislavovich Gembitsky.
I became attached to this unusual person. I liked his speeches at department meetings: (the validity of his own judgments and respectful position towards others). It was noticeable that Molchanov himself took him into account. It could be assumed that it was he who would inherit all the wealth that was then concentrated in this department.
I often worked for a long time with Evgeniy Vladislavovich in the halls of the Academy’s Fundamental Library, marveling at his ability to work. We used to walk along the Neva embankment, near the library. talking about life. In those years, it was especially important for me that someone would listen to me. He encouraged our conversations. After meeting with Gembitsky, life became somehow joyful. It was thanks to his attention that my clinical, pedagogical and scientific development went especially intelligently and quickly.
The clinic is a place where mutual enrichment of experience is inevitable. I will give one case out of many. I was caring for a 32-year-old patient, very sick, with severe heart failure, with dense white swelling - such that liquid was oozing down his legs from the pores so that it could be collected in a test tube. It was believed that he suffered from rheumatism with combined damage to the mitral valve. Evgeniy Vladislavovich watched it with me more than once. The matter was coming to a head: the symptoms of cardiac asthma were increasing, and the digitalis and diuretic drugs used did not produce an effect. During one of his rounds, Evgeniy Vladislavovich suggested that against the background of rheumatism, the patient apparently developed amyloidosis, which explained the extreme severity of the edema syndrome.
The patient died. When I headed to the section, Evgeniy Vladislavovich asked me to specifically remind the dissector about the need for research for amyloidosis. The autopsy revealed severe stenosis of the mitral valve, enlargement of the left atrium and right parts of the heart, a large liver, ascites, edema... The diagnosis of heart disease was confirmed, and I went up to the department. Leaning against the wall in the corridor, Evgeny Vladislavovich stood, surrounded by listeners. I cheerfully reported to him the results of the autopsy. 0n listened attentively and very seriously and quietly asked: “Have tissues been taken to test for amyloidosis?” To my horror, I had to admit that I had forgotten to tell the prosector about this, especially since he had no doubt about the diagnosis. Gembitsky, in a special way, as if studying, looked at me sadly and, pushing off the wall, slowly walked away without saying a word.
Having come to my senses, I quickly returned to the autopsy room. The corpse was still lying on the table. I asked the pathologist to return to the study and take appropriate tissue samples. For the next 2-3 days I avoided meeting with Gembitsky: I was ashamed of my mistake. It soon became known that histology confirmed signs of amyloid degeneration not only in the usual organs, but also in unusual ones, including the mitral valve. Valve leaflets stuffed with amyloid lumps simulated heart disease, creating all the conditions for the development of heart failure. But data for rheumatism... was not received.
Of course, I told Evgeny Vladislavovich about this. As if nothing had happened between us, he immediately shared his assumption about the primary nature of amyloidosis - a rare type of this disease. He said that it is necessary to study the relevant literature and prove it.
After sitting in the Fundamental Library like hell for a week, I studied all the literature that was available, starting with the works late XIX century. I found out that our observation of amyloid heart disease is the only one in the Russian literature. I was so carried away by the search for literary evidence that I could not think of anything else. Then, I became convinced that a meaningful search gives rise to amazing performance.
It seemed to me that I had rehabilitated myself before Evgeniy Vladislavovich. But he set the task of reporting this rare observation at a meeting of the Leningrad Therapeutic Society, and later sending its description to the journal Cardiology. All this was accomplished, but my requests to co-author these messages were met with constant refusal. It even offended me. Only over the years did it become clear to me: he was a Teacher, and for a real Teacher, the student’s interests are always higher than his own, and he taught me this generosity for future use.
In the fall of 1966, while completing work on my candidate's dissertation, I often traveled from Saratov, where I worked at that time as a teacher in the department of military field therapy, to Leningrad. In the evenings, Evgeniy Vladislavovich and I met in the reading room of the Fundamental Library and consistently worked on the dissertation text: he edited it, and I corrected it. He said: “You must become a writer!” I doubted, it seemed to me that I had not even learned to think properly. But he was sure of it. In May 1967, the dissertation was successfully defended.
I have been, more than once, to the Academic Library and later - on the affairs of my doctoral dissertation. I met there many scientists of that time (professors M.I. Lytkin, V.P. Silvestrov, V.N. Beyer, G.N. Guzhienko) and my classmates (O.I. Koshilya, K.A. Sidorov, A.Ya. Kholodny, G.N. Tsybulyak, D.T. Khokhlov and others).
All libraries, regardless of their fame, are united by the ability of a person to concentrate on the book and on himself, the silence of the environment, respected by everyone, and the sacred act of knowledge. This also applies to the Lenin Library in Moscow, where I visited when I was still a 9th grade student. On every table in her reading room there was a lamp with a green shade. And along the walls there are cabinets with books. And to the library. Saltykov-Shchedrin in Leningrad, and in the library of the Saratov Medical Institute on Gorky Street... Any library is a place for concentrated intellectual growth of a person.
The fundamental library of the Leningrad Medical Academy, famous in the world, is one of the oldest in Russia. She is now at least 220 years old. She is my old friend.
My works may also be stored in her funds. The first work (“Chlorides of blood and urine in patients with allergic diseases (bronchial asthma, pneumonia and rheumatism) in children”) was published in the Proceedings of the Academy for 1956. Abstracts of the candidate's and doctoral dissertations(“Disturbances of water-salt metabolism in cardiac and pulmonary heart failure” and “Pathology internal organs in peacetime trauma,” 1967 and 1979). The books “Pathology of internal organs in trauma” (co-authored with E.V. Gembitsky and L.M. Klyachkin, 1994) and “Therapeutic assistance to earthquake victims” (co-authored with V.T. Ivashkin and F.I. Komarov, 1995).
I donated several of my books to the Fundamental Library (“My Academy”, 2009; “The Teacher and His Time”, 2005; “Doctor of the Airborne Regiment”, 2010; “My Patients”, 2013). Sent from Saratov. Their fate is unknown to me.
March 2017, Saratov.
