Nikolay Dmitriyevich Strazhesko is an outstanding therapist and organizer of the science, a fellow of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour. Strazhesko was educated at the Medical faculty of the Kiev University. Since 1899 had worked under the guidance of professor V. P. Obraztsov at the Clinic of Inner Diseases of the Kiev University. Since 1920 he had been the head of the Therapy Department of the Novorossiysk University. In 1910 N. D. Strazhesko with V. P. Obraztsov described different clinical forms of miocardial infaction for the first time in the world. The scientist studied the problems of physiology of the gastrointestinal tract, described some symptoms and syndromes taking place at cardiovascular diseases, elaborated the study of functional failure of circulation.
