Anatoly E. Kiselev (1913-04.01.1980) In 1936 Anatoly Kiselev graduated with honors from the Smolensk Medical Institute and was asked to stay at the Department of Hospital Surgery for his residency (Head of the Department - Professor A.A. Ogloblin). Beginning in 1939, as a surgeon of a medical battalion in the ranks of the Soviet army, he worked mainly in the field of blood services and transfusiology. During the Great Patriotic War (WWII), he organized the world's first front-line mobile blood transfusion station. In the post-war period, he was an assistant at the Department of Hospital Surgery at the State Medical Institute and one of the organizers of the Smolensk blood transfusion station. In 1950 Kiselev became the head of the Leningrad Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion and of the Leningrad Regional Department of Public Health (1954-1959). From 1959 to 1961, Kiselev acted as the Rector of the Leningrad Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians.
In 1961 Kiselev became the director of the Central Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion and Chief Hematologist of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR. From 1961 to 1972 he edited the journal “Problems of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.” Anatoly E. Kiselev is the author of 15 scientific works, 3 monographs, 14 inventions, organizer of many international congresses and conventions, and was awarded many orders and medals. Anatoly E. Kiselev died on January 4, 1980
