Contemporary advances in long-term conservation of biological structures and facilities. N.I. Pirogov

Provides a brief historical background of preserving the body of the great surgeon N.I. Pirogov after his death to the present day. Conservation measures body initially were successfully conducted in 1881 by the famous anatomist D. Vyvodtsev. In the future, for several decades with the body of N.I. Pirogov not been any preventive measures, so the process began some unwanted degradation of biological tissues.

In 1945, by the Soviet scientists were resumed work on the conservation of the remains of N.I. Pirogov. However, despite these efforts, completely stop the process of destruction of the body failed.

Since 1978, problems long-term and reliable preservation of the body of N.I. Pirogov is engaged in Research Center of Biomedical Technologies (Moscow, Russia).This article presents the results of unique scientific and practical work carried out in the framework of applied problems - the creation of new and improvement of existing biomedical technologies of conservation and long-term preservation of biological structures and objects. The article notes the effectiveness and appropriateness of these developments in the practice of long-term and reliable preservation of the body N.I. Pirogov.

The complex biomedical and technical measures to ensure a long and enhancing the conservation embalmed body N.I. Pirogov russian experts held jointly with Ukrainian doctors and staff of the National Museum N.I. Pirogov in Vinnitsa (Ukraine).