Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko was born into the family of a rural clerk, but managed to become an academician, the first president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and the first neurosurgeon in the country. The main military hospital is named after him. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, all doctors who were sent to the front necessarily came to N. N. Burdenko's open lectures and surgeries. The brilliant surgeon had only a minute to examine the patient and work out the operation plan. The legendary doctor tells about the first brain surgeries, about working in the most difficult conditions, about fighting epidemics and much more on the pages of this book.