Mykola Mykolayovych Bolyarsky was born in the Perm province in 1878. After graduating from high school he studied at the Medical Faculty of St. George’s University. In 1905, without graduating from university, he went to work as a district doctor in the Kursk province. A year later he returned to school.

The name of M. M. Bolyarsky is closely connected with the Vinnytsia Medical Institute. He is one of the initiators of its creation. From 1934 until the death of MM Bolyarsky was the vice-rector for education and research, at the same time he headed the Department of Surgery, from which the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy was separated into a separate structural unit.

Novitsky Sofroniy Terentiyovych (1892-1957) graduated from the Kyiv Medical Institute (1922). A student of Professor I. O. Zavyalov, he defended his dissertation on the topic “Fracture of the Femoral Neck in Adults” (1936).

He headed the Department of Operative Surgery with Topographic Anatomy of Vinnytsia Medical Institute (1938-1941). From 1942 he was the Head of the Department of Operative Surgery of the Tashkent Medical Institute.

Kallistov Ivan Pavlovich was born in 1897 in Kostroma. In 1922 he graduated from the Medical Faculty of the First Moscow State University where he was left for research work as an intern at the Faculty of Surgical Clinic (directors — Prof. Spizharny and Acad. Burdenko). From 1930 he worked as an assistant and then associate professor of the surgical clinic of the Sanitary and Hygienic Faculty of I MOLMI until the beginning of the war.

In 1935 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences. During the war he was a surgeon in a hospital in Ivanovo. In October 1944 he was elected by competition and approved as the head of the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of Vinnytsia Medical Institute. From March to November, he was an acting head of the Department of Hospital Surgery at VMI. In 1946 he was approved as an associate professor at the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy, from the same year the dean of VMI. In 1947, associate professor Kallistov IP submitted his doctoral dissertation for defense to I MOLMI.

Dvuzhilna Kateryna Danylivna was born on September 16, 1913 in Donbass. In 1935 she graduated with honors from the First Kharkiv Medical Institute and was left in graduate school at the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy. After graduating from graduate school and defending a dissertation on the topic “On Changes in Neighboring Organs and Tissues in Acute Appendicitis” until 1941 she worked as an assistant at the Department of Faculty Surgery.

In 1941-1943 she worked as the head of the medical department of the unit No. 197, the leading surgeon of the evacuation hospital No. 4871 of the Karelian Front. In 1943-1944 she was an assistant at the Department of Faculty Surgery of the Naval Medical Academy. From September 1944 — Associate Professor of the Department of Faculty Surgery of VMI, Acting Head of the Department of General Surgery. Since 1948 — Head of the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy.

Kulyk Petro Pavlovych was born on June 22, 1902 in the city of Rivne, Kirovohrad Region. In 1917-1921 he studied at the medical school, Kherson and until 1924 worked in the rural area of ​​the village of Balashovka, Kirovograd region. In 1924-1929 he served in the army in his specialty. From 1929 to 1933 he studied at the 1st Kyiv Medical Institute. After graduating from the institute he was left in graduate school, after which in 1935 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of KMI (1935-1938). On December 20, 1937, he defended his dissertation on the topic “Meckel’s Diverticulum and Its Role in Abdominal Pathology”.

1938-1945 — senior teacher of advanced training courses for doctors of the Far Eastern Front.

1945-1947 — Assistant Professor of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy, Kyiv Medical Institute.

In 1947 Kulik P. P. was awarded the academic title of associate professor. 1947-1951 — Associate Professor of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy, Kyiv Medical Institute.

From 1952 to 1973 he headed the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of Vinnytsia Medical Institute. He worked as the dean of VMI in 1953-1954. On June 6, 1957 he defended his doctoral dissertation on “Materials for surgical anatomy of the ileocecal intestine”. In 1963, associate professor Kulik P. P. was awarded the academic title of professor. Until 1976 he worked as a scientific consultant of the department.

Terentyev Grigory Vasilyevich was born in Vinnytsia in February 1924. In 1949 he graduated from Vinnytsia Medical Institute and from 1950 was left as an assistant at the Department of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery. He combined this position for 2.5 years with the work of a surgeon at the regional hospital. Knowledge of the clinic’s requests determined the further direction of scientific and experimental work. In 1955 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences on the topic “Surgical Anatomy of the Deep Femoral Artery with Features of Collateral Circulation”. In 1960, Terentyev G. V. was awarded the academic title of associate professor. From 1972 he worked as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Pediatrics. In 1973 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Topographic and Anatomical and Experimental Research on Surgery in the Pancreatico-duodenal region”. In the same year Terentyev G. V. headed the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy.

In 1975, associate professor Terentyev G. V. was awarded the academic title of professor. From 1989 to 1993 he worked as a professor of the department. Research conducted by him in the 1950s was devoted to the topography of the vessels of the extremities and collateral circulation. In experiments on dogs he found a significant sensitivity to the cold stimulus which disappears in 1.5 months after ligation (resection) of the main vessel, i.e., until the sufficient development of collateral circulation.

Hryhoriy Yakovych Kostyuk was born in the village of Kopaygorod, Bar district, Vinnytsia region, on February 22, 1938. In the difficult postwar years, he entered the Odessa Medical School G3 which he graduated from in 1959. In 1959-1961 he was in the stock service in the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1961-1967 he studied at the medical faculty of Vinnytsia Medical Institute named after M. I. Pirogov, after which he was sent to research at the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy. From 1968 he worked as an assistant of the department. In 1974 he defended his dissertation “Surgery on the Stomach in Acute Radiation Sickness in the Experiment” in a specialized council at the Ivano-Frankivsk Medical Institute. In 1977 he was awarded the academic title of associate professor of the department. Along with fruitful pedagogical activity, H. Ya. Kostyuk worked as the deputy dean and carried out great public work.

In 1988 he defended his doctoral dissertation “Morphofunctional and Mathematical Analysis of Changes in the Pancreas in Experimental Acute Pancreatitis and its Correction”. In 1991 he was awarded the academic title of professor. He has been working as the Head of the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy since 1989. Scientific direction — research of bases of functioning and development of reconstructive operations on hollow bodies of the digestive system by methods of mathematical modeling.

Pivtorak Volodymyr Izyaslavovych has headed the department since September 2017. He was born on November 28, 1952 in the village of Druzhne, Kalinov district, Vinnytsia region. He studied at Druzhnenskaya eight-year and Novogrebelskaya secondary schools of Kalinov district of Vinnytsia region. From 1970 to 1976 he studied at the Vinnytsia Medical Institute named after M. I. Pirogov. He passed an internship on the basis of Kalinov district hospital, Vinnytsia region. Since 1977 he has been working at the Department of Operative Surgery and Clinical Anatomy. He defended his dissertation on the topic “Morphofunctional Changes of the Myocardium in High Intestinal Obstruction and its Correction in the Experiment” in a specialized scientific council at the Kiev Medical Institute named after O. O. Bogomolets under the guidance of doctor of medical sciences, prof. Terentyev Grigory Vasilyevich and doctor of medical sciences, prof. Medvedsky Eugene Boleslavovich.

Scientific direction of prof. Pivtorak V. I. is study, mathematical and experimental modeling of morphofunctional changes in the body during pathological processes, injuries, as well as after surgery, development of new methods of surgical treatment. His students Candidates of Medical Sciences Kostyuk O. G., Monastyrsky V. M., Kfuri E. B., Odarchenko S. P., Malogolovka O. A., Bulko M. P., Burkov M. V., Smiyukha O. A. and numerous applicants working on PhD and doctoral dissertations continue his scientific results.