The National Museum of the KBR hosts an exhibition in memory of KBSU professor Magomet Taukenov

From March 28 to March 30, the National Museum of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic hosts an exhibition dedicated to Magomet Taukenov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, holder of the Order of the Badge of Honor, the badge «Excellent Health Worker». Magomet Tamukovich was born in 1931 in the village of Upper Balkaria, Kabardino-Balkaria Autonomous Region. In March 1944, together with his family, he was deported to Central Asia, where he spent his adolescence and began his youth. In 1951, Taukenov entered the medical faculty of the Alma-Ata Medical Institute. Already in his second year, under the guidance of Academician A.P. Polosukhin, he completed an interesting experimental work on the effect of light on blood cells. Having received a medical degree with honors in 1956, for two years he was in charge of a rural medical district in the Alma-Ata region.

For the first time in the USSR, Magomet Tamukovich developed intravesical chemotherapy through the feeding artery, a combined treatment for prostate cancer. He was an outstanding urological surgeon who mastered many methods of surgical treatment of the abdominal organs and the genitourinary system, including those for oncological diseases. He developed a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the genitourinary system, studied the issues of surgical treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Mohammed Tamukovich is the author of more than 200 scientific papers, two RF patents for inventions.

Prepared 23 candidates of medical sciences and two doctors of medical sciences. In 1968, Taukenov was invited to head the Department of General Surgery at the Medical Faculty of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University. The professor paid much attention to educational and methodological work, training of specialists. The period of his leadership of the department of faculty surgery was marked by important achievements for the republic: the creation of a urological school, the release of the urological service of the republic to the modern scientific and practical level, the flourishing of the most complex area of ​​urology — plastic urology, the training of a young generation of surgeons and urologists, the introduction of new diagnostic methods into healthcare practice and surgical treatment, the creation and development of a trauma service and thoracic surgery. Mahomet Tamukovich shared his experience with young surgeons, taught and instructed, helped them gain self-confidence and become good specialists.

In May 2014, Magomet Taukenov passed away, but hundreds of KBR doctors remembered him as their favorite teacher, very hardworking, high professional, kind and attentive to patients, employees, colleagues and students. The exhibition will continue for 2 more days. You can visit it at the address: Gorky, 62, National Museum of the KBR.