Passage named after N.N. Priorov

  Among the many avenues, squares, streets, and alleys of Arkhangelsk there is a small passage named after the famous Russian doctor, orthopedic traumatologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Priorov (1885-1961).
Nikolai Nikolaevich Priorov was born in Shenkursk, Arkhangelsk province. Then he moved to Arkhangelsk with his parents, where he began studying at a seminary (theological college). In 1912, N.N. Priorov entered the Medical Faculty of Tomsk University. As a student, he worked in Arkhangelsk as a doctor's assistant. During the expedition to the Kara Sea, N.N. Priorov was responsible for the medical support of the sea voyage.
After receiving a doctor's degree, N.N. Priorov worked as a resident at the S.P. Botkin Hospital in Moscow. During the First World War, he served as a surgeon in hospitals. After the October Revolution of 1917, Nikolai Nikolaevich headed the Central Hospital for Wounded Soldiers in Moscow. In 1921 he founded the first prosthetic treatment institute in our country, which he led for 40 years. Now it is the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics.
During the Great Patriotic War, N.N. Priorov was one of the main front-line surgeons, as well as the organizer and editor of the journal "Hospital Business". His scientific works are dedicated to the organization of traumatology and orthopedic care, prosthetics, military field medicine, etc. The name of N.N. Priorov is well known both in Russia and in other countries, for example, Great Britain and Czechoslovakia.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Priorov died in 1961 in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. The Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, a number of streets in different cities and the Shenkursky district Hospital bear his name.
In 1984, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Arkhangelsk, a previously unnamed passage in our city at the end of Sadovaya Street - from Loginov Street to Gaidar Street – was named after the scientist. The Arkhangelsk City Cultural Center and two children's polyclinics, one of which is dental, are located in N.N. Priorov Passage.