| Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 8, 1927 Proskurov, Ukrainian SSR |
| Died | June 2, 2000 (aged 72) Moscow, Russia |
| Education | Rostov Medical Institute |
| Known for | Creating radial keratotomy |
| Profession | Surgeon and Politician |
| Institutions | Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery |
| Specialism | Ophthalmology, Eye surgery, |
| Research | radial keratotomy intraocular lens replacement |
Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov (Russian: Святослав Николаевич Фёдоров; born August 8, 1927 – June 2, 2000) was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician. He is known as the creator of radial keratotomy.
Fyodorov was born in Proskurov, Ukrainian SSR (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), to ethnic Russian parents.
Fyodorov graduated from Rostov Medical Institute, then worked as a practicing ophthalmologist in a small town in Rostov Oblast.
In 1960 he performed the first intraocular lens replacement operation in the Soviet Union.
In 1980 he became the head of the Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery.
Fyodorov was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies in 1989-1991. He was elected to the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, in 1993. He ran for president in 1996.
Returning from an academic conference in 2000, Fyodorov died in the crash of his clinic's four-seater helicopter on the outskirts of Moscow.