Efim Anatolyevich Dyskin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Major-General of Medical Service, Professor (1923–2012)

Abstract

The basic information about the life and scientific work of Efim Anatolyevich Dyskin (1923–2012), Hero of the Soviet Union, Major-General of Medical Service, Doctor of Medical Sciences Professor, Honorary Doctor of the Kirov Military Medical Academy is presented. In June 1941, he volunteered for the front, where, after a short course of military training became the gunner of anti-aircraft battery which guarded Moscow from bombings. There E.A. Dyskin earned his first medal "For Service in Battle". By mid-November 1941 the Nazis came particularly close to Moscow. In the morning of November 17 the Germans launched a massive air strikes and mortar fire against the positions of 694 Artillery Regiment, only one gun, where the gunner was E.A. Dyskin, survived in the third battery. Then 20 German tanks went ahead. Severely injured soldier kept firing almost point-blank and shot down 7 enemy tanks in this battle preventing them from breaking through to the Volokolamsk highway and on to Moscow. Then there was a long difficult treatment in military hospitals of Vladimir, Sverdlovsk and Samarkand. On April 12, 1942 a decree was issued conferring on E.A. Dyskin the highest award of the motherland - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In the same decree the list of awardees included Major-General I.V. Panfilov. Later, E.A. Dyskin graduated from the Kirov Military Medical Academy (1947), prepared and defended Ph.D. (1951) and doctoral thesis (1962), was elected as a head of the Department of normal anatomy of the Academy (1968), and conducted scientific, educational and social activities. E.A. Dyskin – author of over 200 scientific papers, many of which are relevant up to now.