Oleg Konstantinovich Bumay (in memory of a teacher, colleague, comrade)

Abstract

January 1, 2024 marked the 70th anniversary of the birth of the former head of the organization and tactics of the medical service of the fleet (with a course of tactics and combat weapons of the fleet) department of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, effective director for modern topics of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Research Institute of Industrial and Marine Medicine FMBA of Russia, candidate of medical sciences, associate professor Oleg Konstantinovich Bumay (1954–2022). O.K. Bumay was born in the village of Bogudenka, Belarus. He was alumnus the faculty of training doctors for the Navy of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy. After graduating from the academy in 1977, for a decade he provided and organized medical support for nuclear submarines as the head of the ship’s medical service, the cheef of medical a submarine forces in the Northern Fleet, and subsequently served as a senior medical officer in the Baltic Fleet. Over the course of two decades, O.K. Bumay was associated with the organization and tactics of the naval medical service (with a course of tactics and combat weapons of the fleet) department of S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy. In 1991, he entered the adjunct program at the department; upon completion of his studies, he was appointed as a teacher, subsequently as a senior teacher, and since 2009 — deputy head of the department. He received the rank of Philosophy doctor of Medical Sciences (1994), associate professor (1998). After leaving the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2007, he continued his career as deputy director for special topics at the Federal State Budgetary Institution Research Institute of Industrial and Marine Medicine of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia. O.K. Bumay developed origins medical support system for the domestic nuclear submarine fleet. Was appointed on the post the head of the ship’s medical service and after that officer of the command-and-control body of an operational-tactical formation. Throughout their career he left a multifaceted scientific and practical legacy, which is used by new generations of naval doctors.

Keywords

medical service / medical support / Military-medical Academy / nuclear submarine / O.K. Bumay / organization and tactics of the medical service of the fleet (with a course in tactics and combat weapons of the fleet) department / Research Institute of Industrial and Marine Medicine

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