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Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Russian physician (1927-2000).

Born August 8th, 1927 in Khmelnytskyi.

Died June 2nd, 2000 at 72 years old in Moscow (aircraft crash).

Occupations
member of the State Duma, non-fiction writer, ophthalmologist, politician, surgeon, university teacher

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel