ТУРКЕВИЧ КОСТЯНТИН ІВАНОВИЧ. ПЕРШИЙ ЗАВІДУВАЧ КАФЕДРИ АКУШЕРСТВА, ГІНЕКОЛОГІЇ ТА БІОТЕХНОЛОГІЇ ВІДТВОРЕННЯ ТВАРИН

The life course of Kostyantyn Ivanovich Turkevich - the first head of department of obstetrics, gynecology and bio-technology of animal reproduction of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine is highlighted. The biographical material is presented in chronological order. For the first time, based on the data of the funds of the State Archives of Kyiv, it became possible to document the biography and work of an extraordinary person, an unsurpassed doctor of veterinary medicine, practice, inquisitive scientist, decent worker and administrator. From 1923 to 1951, K. I. Turkevich worked at the Veterinary Faculty first from the Kyiv Veterinary and Zootechnical Institute (KVZI), and from 1930 - the Kyiv Veterinary Institute (KVI). He started his labor activity as an assistant of Department of Operative Surgery, and subsequently worked as the Head of Department of Operative Surgery, Department of General and Special Surgery and Obstetrics at the KVZI. Turkevich K. I. was repeatedly appointed to the position of dean of the veterinary faculty, he was the head of the educational part of the KVZI, worked as a deputy director of the scientific department and head of the department for the study of cattle diseases of the Kiev Scientific Veterinary Institute (KSVI), the head of the Department of Veterinary obstetrics KVI. While Kostyantin Ivanovich was at various positions, he always took an active part in helping production, published a number of scientific works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]