Michael DeBakey with Russian colleagues Michael DeBakey with Russian colleagues

Publication: Produced: June 1960 Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Subject(s): Russia Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Abstract: DeBakey is standing third from the right.. DeBakey visited the Soviet Union from December 15-20, 1958, at a time when the United States and USSR were locked in a deadly arms race, the Cold War. People lived in fear of nuclear annihilation, anticommunist politicians created an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia in the United States government, and the people of each country looked upon each other with mounting hostility. DeBakey's visit, enabled by Boris Petrovsky, Minister of Health, and Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, was nothing short of remarkable. DeBakey continued to foster medical collaboration with the Soviet Union, making a number of subsequent visits from the 1960s to the 1990s, when he advised President Boris Yeltsin's physicians about his coronary bypass surgery. Copyright: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101743405X81 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: FJBBFY Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X81 Archival Collection: The Michael E. DeBakey Papers (Profiles in Science)