Surgery of the heart and blood vessels has been progressing successfully in the USSR through the work of A. N. Bakulev, B.V. Petrovskii, P. A. Kupriianov, A. A. Vishnevskii, V. I.Kolesov, N. M. Amosov, and E. N. Meshalkin, all of whomwere awarded the Lenin Prize. The Sta...