Alexander Shalimov

He died in 2006 in Kyiv and was buried in the Baikove Cemetery. In 2014 a monument was erected in his honor in Kyiv.

Shalimov was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1978 and of the Ukrainian Medical Academy since 1993. He performed around 40-thousand operations, authored over 830 medical publications, including 30 monographs. He is further credited with 112 inventions.

Alexander Shalimov was one of 11 children in a farmers family, which moved to Kuban (Koshekhabl) in 1925, where he attended school. From 1934 to 1936 he attended the Medical school of Kuban, which he graduated with honors. He then attended the Kuban State Medical University in Krasnodar, which he completed in 1941. In September 1944 he became the chief physician and head of the surgical department of the city Baikal City Hospital in Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky. Since 1959 he held the Chair of Thoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology at the Kharkiv National Medical University. Starting in May 1970 he held the Chair of Surgery at the Kyiv Institute of Continuing Education. Since May 1971 he was the Director of the Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. After July 1972 he was the director and after April 1988 the Honorary Director of the Research Institute for Clinical and Experimental Surgery. At the same time he was a chief surgeon of the Ukrainian Ministry of Healthcare.

Alexander Alekseyevich Shalimov (Ukrainian: Шалімов Олександр Олексійович; January 20, 1918 – February 28, 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian surgeon and one of the founders of the Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation, which is named after him.