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Mykola Sklifosovskyi is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian surgeons, a scientist, public figure, a person of exceptionally broad and deep knowledge, a doctor who never refused help to anyone. He was a professor of the university clinic, the initiator and founder of the Pyrohov congress of doctors, one of those who started abdominal surgery, antiseptics and aseptics.
For many years his life was connected with Poltava. It was here in the Provincial Hospital that he performed the most difficult operations, saving the lives of many Poltava residents. Since 1871, he spent every summer in Yakivtsi at his estate "Vidrada", and since 1900 he lived here permanently. Mykola Sklifosovskyi died in 1904 and is buried here.
In 1979, for the 75th anniversary of the death of the outstanding doctor, a monument was erected on the territory of the regional clinical hospital bearing his name. This is a granite bust mounted on a pedestal. The author is the sculptor M. Chernytskyi. The height of the monument is 1.6 m, the pedestal is 2.4 m.
1979
On the pedestal - a memorial inscription "From surgeons of Soviet Ukraine and grateful Poltava".
23 Shevchenko Street
