mausoleum which is used as a family chapel and in which his embalmed body is visible in public. Pirogov Glacier in Antarctica, the large Pirogov Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria and the 2506 Pirogov asteroid, discovered in August 1976 by Russian astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, are all named in honour of him. The Russian National Research Medical University is named after him, as was the Odesa State Medical University; Vinnytsia Medical University was named after N. Pirogov in 1960. Stamps with his portrait were published in the Soviet Union in 1949 and his 150th anniversary in 1960. The highest humanitarian prize in the Soviet Union was the Pirogov Gold Medal. Apart from his developed foot amputation techniques, several anatomical structures were named after him, such as the Pirogoff angle; the Pirogoff's aponeurosis, a structure from fascia and the aponeurosis of the biceps; the Pirogoff triangle, a triangular area located between the mylohyoid muscle, the intermediate tendon of the musculus digastricus and the hypoglossal nerve. Trivia According to a study conducted in 2015, Pirogovov was included in "Russia team on medicine". This list includes fifty-three famous Russian medical scientists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who were born in 1757—1950. Physicians of all specialities listed here. Among them Vladimir Bekhterev, Vladimir Demikhov, Sergei Korsakoff, Ivan Pavlov, Victor Skumin. References Bibliography External links Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia on Pirogov Russian State Medical University old website Website for the National Pirogov's Estate Museum 1810 births 1881 deaths Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Demidov Prize laureates Embalmers Physicians from Moscow Russian military doctors Scientists from the Russian Empire Surgeons from the Russian Empire Anatomists from the Russian Empire Inventors from the Russian Empire Imperial Moscow University alumni University of Tartu alumni Academic staff of the University of Tartu 19th-century physicians from the Russian Empire Privy Councillor (Russian Empire) Russian military personnel of the Crimean War