Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky was a Russia

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n surgeon and physiologist of Ukrainian

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 origin. He was born near the town of Dubasari

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, which is now in Transnistria

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. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg

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 and Kiev

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. The Moscow

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 Institute of Emergency First Aid

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, often abbreviated as Sklif, bears his name since 1923.

In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria

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 minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria

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, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie

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