Nikolay Amosov    WORLD OUTLOOK

Voices of Time

• Instead of Foreword
• Chapter 1. Relatives. Mother
• • Nikanorovs Family: The North. "Godforsaken place"
  • Mother. "Maidenly sin". Midwifery classes. Olkhovo village. Marriage. My childhood experiences
  • Olkhovo village. Amosovs house. The village in prerevolutionary period and at NEP time
  • Amosovs family. Fates
  • Father. Village cooperative. Marriage. War. Captivity. Homecoming. Cherepovets town – work. Drinking-bouts. Family collapse. Second marriage. Illness
• Chapter 2. Childhood, boyhood, youth
• • Before 1926. Solitary childhood. School years. The Young Pioneers. Books. Cherepovets town
  • 1926-29. Cherepovets. Apartment. Responsibilities. Finances. Loneliness. Walking tours to Olkhovo
  • 1928-29. Falling in love. Stealing of books – God’s Saving?
  • 1928-30. The end of NEP, legal actions, collective farms. Breaking off relations with the father. Love. Forestry practical work. Oath
  • 1930-32. Arrests. Lionka – company. Technical college. Work for "breakthrough". Practical work in Leningrad. Father’s death. Engine driver. Finishing of studies
• Chapter 3. Arkhangelsk. 1932-39
• • Seeing-off. Trip. Shift engine driver. Hostel. Canteen for engineer and technicians
  • 1932-35. Station. Shift. Responsibilities. Breakdown. Work
  • 1932-35. Everyday life. Birthday party. Compares
  • 1932-35. First winter. Mother’s illness. Love. Uncle Pavel
  • 1934. Correspondence course at high school. Holiday. A reckless scheme with university. Mother’s funeral
  • Study by correspondence at high school. Dismissal. Medical high school
  • 1935-36. Medical high school. Exams. Hostel. Boris. Finances. Two courses in one year
  • 1937. Professor Lashkarev. "Alternative physics". Apartment
  • 1937-38. Project. Legal actions. Uncle Pavel’s arrest. Stalin’s constitution. Elections
  • 1939. Recruiting to sailors. The high school is over. Post-graduate course. Treaty with Hitler. War
  • 1939-40. War against finns. Diploma presentation. Clinics of Alferov and Tsimkhes
  • 1940-41. Parting. Cherepovets, surgery. Stasov. Operations. Smolskaja L.Y. Science
  • 1940-41. Commission of recruitment center. Malingering - white chit. Trip to Kiev
• Chapter 4. War
• • 1941. War outbreak
  • 1941. FMH (Field mobile hospital ). Go to the front
  • 1941. Way to the front
  • 1941. Sukhinichi. HLW (Hospital for lightly wounded). Wounded
  • 1941. Bombardment
  • 1941. Retreat behind Moscow
  • 1941. Yegorievsk. Putting plasters
  • 1942. Offensive. Podolsk
  • 1942. Kaluga. Nightmare
  • 1942. Maxillofacial surgery
  • 1942. Progress. Solid plaster
  • 1942. ZUG- device. Award
  • 1942. Attempt of a suicide
  • 1942. "Skulls". Joint resection
  • 1942. Replacement of leadership. Dissertation
  • 1943. To the front
  • 1943. "Ugolnaya" - beginning
  • 1943. "Ugolnaya" - continuing
  • 1943. Alone
  • 1943. Forward to the West
  • 1943. Khorobichi-1
  • 1943. Khorobichi-2. Two thousands wounded
  • 1944. Buda. Marriage
  • 1944. Offensive
  • 1944. Poland
  • 1945. Eastern Prussia
  • 1945. Far East. End of FMH
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Moscow. Briansk
• • 1945. Again Manchuria
  • 1946. Voroshilov-Ussuriiskiy. Kirill. Vocation
  • 1946. Demobilization
  • 1947-52. Briansk surgery
  • 1950-52. Briansk life. Dissertation
  • 1949-51. Lungs surgery. Debut
  • 1952. Everyday life and the country
  • 1952. Kiev. Institute of tuberculosis
• Chapter 6. Kyiv
• • 1952-53. Kyiv. Doctor of Science
  • 1953. Getting a chair
  • 1955. Heart surgery
  • 1955. Begin of cybernetics
  • 1956. Daughter
  • 1956-57. The ruin of Stalin’s cult. New clinic
  • 1957. Congress in Mexico
  • 1958-59. Apparatus for artificial circulation of blood
  • 1959-63. Events and meetings in 60th
  • 1962-64. Ranks and awards
  • 1962-63. Trip to the USA. Congress in Kharkov. Artificial intelligence
  • 1963-65. Valves
  • 1962-68. Writer
  • 1963. Explosion in a chamber
  • 1965-67. Various things
  • 1967. Making Report in Washington
  • 1968. Italy. Princess Olsufieva. Sakharov
  • 1968. Heart transplantation
  • 1969-71. Various things – early 70-th. Psychology. "Ethics of a pack"
  • 1971-75. Daughter. Congress in Moscow. Deaths
  • 1974-1975. Meetings. Memoirs on the war
  • 1975. New building
  • 1976-1979. Again: Amerika, work, deaths
  • Book about health
  • 1982-83. Capitulation. Dacha work
  • 1983. Institute
  • 1983-85. Jubilee. Troubles and deaths
  • 1984-88. Records from diaries
  • 1989-90. People’s deputy
  • 1990-92. Science: questionnaires, individual
  • 1989-90. Public affairs. Disappointment
  • 1991-92. Events. Putsch
  • 1992-93. Lida: "rings" Last surgery
  • 1993-98. Experimental life
  • 1998. "Last parade"
  • Concluding remarks
  • 2000. Experiment is over? Life goes on
  • Addition of November 2000
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword to "Experiment", July 2001