Kiparsky

KIPARSKY Rene Valentinovich (born in 1867), one of the prominent contemporary Russian gynecologists, professor of the State Obstetric-Gynecological Institute in Leningrad (since 1923). After graduating from the medical faculty of Moscow University in 1894, he first worked at the former Moscow Maternity Assistance Establishment and in Moscow hospitals, then at the former St. Petersburg Maternity Assistance Establishment and in Otto's gynecological clinic. In 1898, K. defended his dissertation at the Military Medical Academy on the topic "To the Question of the Infection of Wounds in Alcoholics" (St. Petersburg, 1898). His scientific and teaching activity was carried out at the Clinical Institute for the Improvement of Physicians, where he was dean in 1909, and from 1917 to 1923 was professor of the department of obstetrics and women's diseases. K. is the author of a modification of the Czerny operation. K. has more than 30 printed works, of which the greatest interest are represented by works on the vaginal method in gynecology and the operative treatment of tuberculosis of the female genital organs. K. wrote the chapter on cesarean section in Otto's "Operative Gynecology". K. actively participates in the work of the All-Union Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians and is a member of the presidium of the Leningrad Obstetric-Gynecological Society.