Volkovych, Mykola [Волкович, Микола; Volkovyč], b 8 December 1858 in Horodnia, Chernihiv gubernia, d 11 July 1928 in Kyiv. Surgeon; full member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1928. A graduate of Kyiv University (1882), he was a professor there (1903–22) and head of the medical research department of the Kyiv division of the Chief Science Administration of the People's Commissariat of Education (1922–8). A pioneer of modern surgery in Ukraine, he founded the Kyiv Surgical Society (1908), established a school of surgeons, invented special instruments for treating fractures, introduced an osteoplastic operation for tibiofibular joint tuberculosis and plastic closure of a vesicovaginal fistula, performed a laminectomy (1894) and intracapsular resection of a knee joint (1896), and designed an incision for appendectomy (1898) and the tyre for shoulder joint immobilization (Volkovych tyre, 1908). He wrote numerous works on the surgical treatment of rhinoscleroma, gallstones, appendicitis, bone and joint injuries, and throat cancer.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]