Kazan medical journalKazan medical journal0368-48142587-9359Eco-Vector9108010.17816/kazmj91080MiscellaneousLetters to the Editor. Vol. 24, No. 8 (1928)1508192824882983025122021Copyright © 1928, Eco-Vector1928<p>On June 11 this year passed away Nikolai Markianovich Volkovich, professor emeritus at the Kiev Medical Institute, academician, founder and chairman of the Surgical Society, who for 45 years of his scientific, medical and pedagogical activities taught many generations of physicians. On 13 June this year he was buried in Baikove cemetery. Kiev Surgical Society unanimously decided at its meeting on June 18: 1) to petition to give to the Society the name of its founder and its permanent (during 20 years) chairperson. 2) To take charge of the tomb of the late H. M. and to form a committee to erect a monument bearing the name of the deceased. The committee humbly asks his numerous pupils and admirers to send their mite for the raising of the monument to: Kiev, 9 Pushkinska street, A.S.Delens, the treasurer of Kiev Surgical Society. G. B. Bykhovsky, M. B. Yukelson, S. L. Timofeev, A. A. Chaika, and L. P. Maryanchik.</p>Kazan Medical archiveКазанский медицинский архив