Russia

Russia has an area of about 17 million square kilometers and situated both in Europe and Asia. It makes Russia the largest country in the world. More than 100 ethnic groups live in Russia and numbers 142.9 million citizens. Russian is the official language of Russia and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. In addition to 144 million native speakers Russian is also the secondary language of 114 million people all over the world.

The surgery in Russia run parallels that of surgery in continental Europe. The first Russian manual on surgery was published by Prof. I. Bush in 1807. The glorious chapters of history of surgery in Russia content the name of Nikolay Pirogov (1810-1881) who was a great scientist and outstanding organizer of field surgery, he pioneered Ether narcosis in the battlefield in 1847; Vladimir Demikhov (1916 –1998) was an organ transplant pioneer, who did several transplantations in the 1930s and 1950s, such as the transplantation of a heart into an animal and a lung-heart replacement in an animal. His monograph "Experimental transplantation of vital organs" (1960) later published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, became the world's first monograph on transplantology; Pavel Androsov (1906 – 1969) was an inventor of several stapler devices.

Coloproctology was established as a licensed speciality in 1988, though first specialized proctology department appeared in USSR 1946 and in 1962 there were 15 specialized coloproctology units. Nowadays every region of Russia has coloproctology care departments.

The Russian Association of Coloproctologists was founded on October 3, 1991. Currently it has more than 700 members. The web page can be reached at this link

The official journal of the Association is „Колопроктология”. The national congress of coloproctologists is organized every 4 year. The current president of the Russian Association of Coloproctologists is Prof. Yury Shelygin (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Population: 143 million
ESCP Members: 27
Society: Russian Association of Coloproctologists
ESCP Representative Name: Dr. Evgeny Rybakov ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Journal(s): Колопроктология http://elibrary.ru/title_about.asp?id=26513

Achievements:

The standards of treatment for colorectal cancer has been worked out in collaboration with medical oncologists.

Enterostomal therapy service has been founded under auspices of Russian Association of Coloproctologists