The official name is The Saint Petersburg State Health Care Establishment the City Hospital No 40 of the Resort District.

He was a talented Russian surgeon who intensively operated, stayed with severe patients after midnight, spent his scanty means on purchasing surgical instruments, medications and food.

The restoration of the hospital after the Second World War devastation was conducted by the Chief physician Nikolay Evgen’evich Slupskiy (1899–1964).

At the present time the hospital has units in service in following specialties: anesthesiology and resuscitation (2), intensive care (3), vascular surgery, neurology (3), orthopedics (2), traumatology, gynecology, coloproctology, rehabilitation (4), physical methods of treatment (2), and some others.

The table of contents and chapter’s abstracts both in Russian and English are freely available at the hospital web site.