The cultural value of the people is evidenced by those who imperceptibly make a great contribution to its education, health and moral values. Doctors and teachers are always the main asset of society. Oleg Fedosyevich Tarasov is a true Russian intellectual who served his homeland and people.
Biography of the great doctor
Oleg Feodosievich Tarasov was born on January 17, 1924 in Petrograd in the family of a Russian naval officer and a famous ballerina.
After graduating from school in 1941, Tarasov wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and enlist in the Soviet Navy, but the outbreak of the war canceled all his plans. In July of the same year, he was drafted into the war, where he was enrolled in a machine-gun train. Six months later, the detachment was disbanded and Oleg returned to his hometown. In Leningrad, at the insistence of his parents, he went to work as a firefighter and part-time electrician at the local Institute of Pediatrics. Despite the blockade of Leningrad, classes begin again at the medical institution. In 1942, Oleg Feodosievich became his student. After completing the first course, he was again called up to the front in the ranks of the army. Perfectly fluent in German and English, Tarasov ended up in a group of scouts and went through the entire war with them. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War, as well as five medals of various denominations.
Career and scientific contributions
Returning to his homeland, Oleg Feodosievich Tarasov resumes his studies and successfully receives a medical education. After graduating from graduate school, he brilliantly copes with his dissertation and becomes first a candidate of medical sciences, and then an assistant professor of the famous department of pediatrics.
In 1964, the young scientist went to India, where he was appointed head of the Scientific Pediatric Center for four years. Upon returning to Leningrad, Tarasov takes the post of rector of the Medical Pediatric Institute. At the same time, a talented doctor is engaged in scientific work. Oleg Feodosyevich has published over 40 scientific reports and articles in English and about ten books on the symptoms of childhood diseases in Russian.
Personal life
During his life, Tarasov was married twice. He met his first wife Tamara Vladimirovna in 1949, being in the penultimate year of the medical institute. Tamara at that time was a freshman at the Faculty of Cardiology of the same medical institute. A year later they got married, and a year later they had a daughter, Marina. The marriage did not last long and as soon as the daughter was two years old, the couple divorced.
In 1995, Tarasov married for the second time to his colleague, a children's doctor, Nina Nikolaevna Tkachenko. With his second wife, Oleg Feodosyevich happily lived the rest of his life. In marriage, another daughter was born to Tarasov. Maria, like her parents, became a doctor.
On May 18, 1999, after a serious and prolonged illness, Oleg Tarasov died at his home in St. Petersburg.
