EDITORIAL

Dear readers!

This issue means that we have gone through three years of hard work on the establishing of the new surgical journal. Our main goal – or you may call it the Mission – is to analyze the achievements of modern intellectual surgery, look for those horizons where fundamental research inevitably meets unique surgical practice. I think we succeed in that and the third issue is another good proof.

It is important to note that starting from this issue our readership has increased significantly: now the circulation will be 3000 copies for a scientific journal.

Also, life itself has prompted us to the following solution: future issues will be published on mono- and multidisciplinary problems. This will allow us both to focus on a specific strategic direction for the development of surgery and medicine and to show the whole range of our current therapeutic options.

We open this issue of our journal by an unusually unique historical material about life and work of Professor Nikolay Terebinsky. This surgeon and researcher was one of the first in the world who saw the working heart valves and modeled them surgically.

Our next – the fourth – issue of 2015 will focus on oncology, surgical interventions in оncology and is being prepared by our Managing Editor, member of our Editorial Board, Academician of RAS M.I. Davydov.