Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Soviet and Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, one of the participants in the implementation of radial keratotomy, professor. Academician of RAMS, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1987). Hero of Socialist Labor of the USSR (1987). On June 2, 2000, he died in a plane crash: the Eurocopter Gazelle helicopter belonging to the clinic, on which Fedorov returned from a conference from Tambov, crashed into a wasteland in the Brattsev area, near the Moscow Ring Road. On board were four people: Fedorov himself and his pilot Anatoly Lobov - in the front seats; behind - Anver Khusainov, who served as the navigator and Alexander Spiridonov, engineer at the Eye Microsurgery IRTC. All four died. According to the IAC, the cause of the crash was a technical malfunction of the helicopter. At the site of Fedorov's death (14 Salomei Neris St.) a chapel was built. He was buried in the rural cemetery of the village of Rozhdestvenno Mytishchi district, 60 km from Moscow.