The article presents the main milestones in the life and work of S.R. Mirotvortsev. Little-known facts from the biography of the professor are mentioned. The awarding of two gold medals for student works "Vessels and nerves of the human plantaris tendons" (together with student V. P. Vorobyev) and "Dislocation of the carpal bones" are analyzed. It is noted that during the Russo-Japanese War, he spent 11 months in the besieged Port Arthur and stayed there with the injured soldiers who were captured by the Japanese. From 1905 to 1914, he worked at the Military Medical Academy, first under the guidance of Professor S.P. Fedorov, then as an assistant to Professor V.A. Oppel. It is shown that from 1914 until the end of his life he worked in Saratov, at the Department of General Surgery, from 1920 - at the Faculty Surgical Clinic. From 1922 to 1928, he was the Rector of the Saratov University. During the Great Patriotic War, he was the Chief Surgeon of Saratov and the Saratov region. S.R. Mirotvortsev published about 150 scientific papers on clinical and military field surgery. The article analyzes that in 1908 he proposed the original operation of ureteral transplantation into the rectum, and passed his doctoral thesis defense on this subject (1909). It is noted that his research on malignant tumors, in particular tubular bone sarcoma, became widely known. He developed methods for unilateral shutdown of the colon, duraplasty with an omentum, and treatment of burn wounds with potassium permanganate solution. S.R. Mirotvortsev suggested the use of the hemostatic properties of catgut for local stopping of bleeding from parenchymal organs and dural sinuses. Of the many works on field surgery, detailed statistical compilation of data on 180 thousand cases of gunshot wounds during the First World War, 1914–1918, is particularly valuable. It is noted that Department of Faculty Surgery of the Saratov Medical Institute and the street in Saratov were named after S.R. Mirotvortsev. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Red Star, and medals.

Keywords: S.R. Mirotvortsev, biography, materials on military surgery, ureter transplantation into the intestine, horseshoe kidney, urethral stricture