- 3, Mendeleyevskaya liniya
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59.943291966306, 30.301159871116 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Section of the fence unidirectional with Tiflissky pereulok. Little pale yellow plaque
- Largest number
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225
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Историческая справка
The monumental ensemble of the Dmitry Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductology occupies the very heart of the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island. It is situated in place of the former Kollezhskaya ploshchad between the Exchange, the Kunstkamera, and the buildings of St. Petersburg State University and the Academy of Sciences.
The Obstetric Institute founded on the initiative of Empress Maria Feodorovna was located in the ancient mansion of Countess Zubova, on the bank of the Fontanka for almost a hundred years. It was then that Nestor Ambodik-Maksimovich worked here. He was an obstetrician extraordinaire, a personal doctor of Catherine the Great and one of the first paediatricians in the country.
After studying obstetrics abroad and passing exams to confirm his qualifications at the Medical College, Nestor began medical practice at St. Petersburg Maritime Hospital and gave obstetric lessons at other medical institutions in St. Petersburg. In 1781, Ambodik-Maksimovich headed the training of midwives at the capital’s “midwives’ school”. The obstetrician achieved great success in developing midwifery, significantly reducing the mortality rate from parturient fever, the main problem of parturient women at that time. Ambodik-Maksimovich also paid much attention to children’s health, so he was considered one of the first Russian paediatricians. In the last years of the reign of Catherine II, he made a plan to develop obstetric training and reorganise obstetric care in Russia. When Paul I ascended to the throne, Ambodik’s career began to fail, he was banned from teaching and was put in charge of the maternity ward at the Kalinkin Hospital (aka Secret Hospital), the first venereological clinic. However, falling from grace with the Emperor did not prevent the professor from helping organise the Obstetric Institute. After the death of his father, Alexander I raised the doctor to the rank of state councillor, but Ambodik never returned to his professorship. He almost entirely retired from medicine and devoted his time to heraldry.
In 1893, Dmitry Ott became director of the Obstetric Institute. After graduating from the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy (now the Military Medical Academy), he was sent to study abroad to improve his knowledge of obstetrics and gynaecology. Returning to Russia, in 1893 Ott headed the Imperial Clinical Obstetric Institute and became a life obstetrician of the Imperial Court. In 1895, he delivered a baby (Olga Nikolayevna) of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1902, Ott operated on Olga Knipper-Chekhova, Anton Chekhov’s wife.
As a director of the Obstetric Institute, Ott enlisted the support of the royal family and decided to modernise and expand the institution to make it as good as the best clinics in Europe. Having collected all the ideas and comments on the design of a new complex of buildings, well-thought-out by Ott, architect Leont Benois began the construction. In February 1904, a new building of the Imperial Clinical Obstetric Institute was opened. The new building was unique: from the arrangement of wards and its own power plant to spacious and bright operating theatres. Two or even three operations could be carried out simultaneously in them and could be observed by students from the amphitheatre. A pipe organ was installed inside the building for therapeutic purposes: each patient had a telephone set at the bed and could pick up the phone to listen to organ music. In 1917, the organ was no longer used in medical practice and in 1931, the instrument was moved to Leningrad Philharmonic.
From 1899 to 1906, Ott served as director of St. Petersburg Women’s Medical Institute (now the First St. Petersburg State Medical University). For more than 40 years, Dmitry Ott conducted research and teaching activities, developed the training of obstetrician-gynaecologists, and cultivated outstanding scientists. Ott also made valuable contribution to operational medicine: he actively introduced aseptics and performed the first laparoscopic surgery. In recognition of his services, the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences was named after Dmitry Ott.
Входил в трассы категорий Лев & Единорог
Статистика взятия: 39/48 (81%).
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- Лев & Единорог: 39/48 (81%)