Traumatology and orthopedics have been taught for almost five decades at the Department of Hospital Surgery, which was headed by Professor George Nikolaevich Lukyanov. In 1968, departments of traumatology, orthopedics and military field surgery were allocated in universities throughout the USSR. From 1968 to 1990, Professor Vaghinak Yegorovich Vartanyan was in charge of this department at the Kuban Medical Institute. Boris Khapiy was an associate professor of the department, Albert Mironovich Arutyunov, Evgeny Georgievich Lysykh and Valery Vyacheslavovich Sabodashevsky were assistants; Nikolai Alexandrovich Kurinnoy was an assistant and then a part–time associate professor.
From 1991 to 2009, the department was headed by Professor Afaunov Ali Ibragimovich. From 2011 to 2012, the department was headed by Anatoly Anatolyevich Zavrazhnov, MD. From 2012 to the present, the head of the department is Asker A. Afaunov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professors of the department are Alexander Nikolaevich Blazhenko, Doctor of Medical Sciences, and Sergey Borisovich Bogdanov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department is Mikhail L. Mukhanov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, and Vladimir V. Kurnosenkov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Vladimir Konstantinovich Shapovalov, and Mikhail Ageev, Candidate of Medical Sciences. Yurievich, Dutov Viktor Sergeevich.
The main directions of the department’s research work are the following problems surgical care for patients with injuries and degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the spine, under the leadership of the head of the department, Afaunov A.A., PhD theses were defended by postgraduate students of the department on this topic Vasilchenko P.P. (in 2012), Kuzmenko A.V. (2017), Shapovalov V.K. (2021), Takhmazyan K.K. (2023),
Another scientific direction in the work of the department is the organization systems of step-by-step surgical care for polytrauma in the Krasnodar Territory, PhD theses were defended on this topic by Mukhanov M.L. (in 2019), Kurinny S.N. (in 2023). Under the joint supervision of professor of the department A.N. Blazhenko and associate professor of the department M.L. Mukhanov. Work is underway to study degenerative and dystrophic diseases of large joints and the possibilities of optimizing the processes of reparative osteogenesis.
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Under the guidance of Professor S.B. Bogdanov of the department, new high-tech approaches to the treatment of patients with thermal lesions are being developed, improved and implemented.
Advanced training cycles are being actively introduced into the curriculum of the department, provided with points from the continuing medical education system (CME) in the main specialty “traumatology and orthopedics”, as well as for doctors of other specialties on topical issues of surgery of injuries and diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
The staff of the department are doing a lot of therapeutic work on the bases of the department of GBUZ “NII-KKB No. 1 named after Prof. Ochapovsky Medical Center, GBUZ “GKB No. 1”, GBUZ “DKKB” and in the multidisciplinary medical center “In safe hands”.