HONORARY DOCTOR OF THE MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY PROFESSOR V.V. VOLKOV (TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH)

SUMMARY: The main milestones of the life path, creative, clinical, scientific and pedagogical activity of Hero of Socialist
Labor, laureate of the State Prize of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Honored Scientist of the Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic, Honorary Doctor of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov Professor Major General Medical Service Veniamin Vasilyevich Volkov are presented. His fundamental research in such sections of ophthalmology as the
organization of specialized assistance in the Armed Forces, ophthalmotraumatology, combined lesions and burns of the eyes,
vitreoretinal pathology, glaucoma, ophthalmoncology, visual organ physiology, lacrimation pathology, development and introduction of lasers into ophthalmological practice, made him one of the most authoritative specialists in domestic and world
ophthalmology. In 1967, V.V. Volkov headed the Department of Ophthalmology, which he led 22 years before his dismissal
from the Armed Forces on September 20, 1989. His multifaceted educational, medical and scientific activities were awarded
numerous awards and titles. Employees of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Military Medical Academy named after
S.M. Kirov are proud that they are students of the school of Professor V.V. Volkov, and the teachers of the older generation
were lucky to work together with a scientist who made a significant contribution to the development of Soviet and Russian
ophthalmology, whose works received widespread world recognition. Professor V.V. Volkov is a scientist who formed the
scientific school of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov in its modern
form. Therefore, in 2019, the department was named after him.