Guarding Life

Carrying out heart surgery using artificial heart valves and plastic vessels. Animation: diagram of the function of the heart with an artificial valve. View of the artificial kidney apparatus at the Research Institute of Surgical Equipment and Instruments. The director of the institute, Mikhail Gerasimovich Ananiev, receives visitors in his office. Professor Evgeny Nikolaevich Meshalkin is performing an operation. Among the patients of the institute are Anna Ioganovna Inozemtseva, Volodya Georgievsky. Artist of the Moscow Theater for Young Spectators Robert Vladimirovich Chumak plays a young doctor in a stage performance.

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1959