Rogozov Leonid - the person who has made an incredible (5 photo + song) Bashny.Net

This amazing story happened in 1961 vAntarktide.
27-year-old Dr. Leonid Rogozov participated in the 6th Soviet Antarctic expedition, during which was opened by Soviet Antarctic station Novolazarevskaya. April 29, 1961, Leonid Rogozov ill. The symptoms were: fatigue, nausea, fever and pain on the right. An experienced surgeon immediately determined that he had acute appendicitis.
Since he was the only doctor at the station, and the weather was non-flying, he decided to do the operation on their own.
At night, April 30, with the help of a meteorologist supplied tools and the driver was holding the mirror, the doctor made himself a local anesthetic and began an operation that lasted about two hours and was interrupted at the time, Leonid Rogozov fainted. Yet the operation was successful and Leonid Rogozov became known worldwide.













In 1963, Vladimir Vysotsky song dedicated to him. Leonid Rogozov died in St. Petersburg in 2000.