December 5 marks 80 anniversary of Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation Zaudin Dagazovich Khunov. The WAC web information portal has prepared an essay on his professional path, life and multifaceted activities.
Lyudmila Aysanova
The name of Zaudin Khunov - candidate of medical sciences, honored doctor of the Russian Federation, chief doctor of the sanatorium “Solnechny” in Cherkessk - is widely known not only in the KChR, but also outside the Republic. A scrupulous and serious approach to business brought him fame as a successful leader, a highly skilled specialist and innovator: he made a huge contribution to the development of healthcare. He was elected Chairman of the first All-Russian Association of Private Practitioners. Zaudin Dagazovich is also one of the veterans of the Legislative Assembly of Karachay-Cherkessia.
An honest conversation
In preparing to write an essay about this famous doctor, from the very beginning I wanted to talk more about him as a person. And one needs to know in order to tell. Having heard about his modesty and some secrecy, I settled in for a difficult task in advance. However, a certain confidence in the success was nevertheless given by the fact that my deceased mother belonged to the Khunov family. But everything turned out to be much simpler.
The conversation took place in the spacious office of Khunov in the sanatorium, and I met his eldest daughter Tatyana Pazova, who today conducts all the administrative affairs of the “Solnechny” medical facility and who is a real support for her father.
Later, talking with both of them, I enjoyed watching how smartly they interact with each other, these two truly close people - and at the same time, full partners in the common cause.
Tatyana Zaudinovna, of course, is well aware of almost all the issues of the sanatorium. But it is more surprising that she knows the smallest details of the activities of her famous father, remembers many interesting facts and cases from his life. For example, she tells me one story that happened once in an airplane when Khunov flew on a business trip to Moscow.
“One of the passengers suddenly had a heart attack, resulting in a stampede and real panic on board, but dad was able to provide immediate medical assistance and the person survived,” Tatyana proudly says, but I think: “One won’t even count how many people he helped, and literally brought some of them back to life.”
Family with a history
Zaudin Dagazovich was born in the Abaza village Kubina (Kubina lokt) in the family of Dagaz Askhadovich Khunov and his wife Tezada Mussovna (maiden name Daguzhieva).
“I was their only child, - says the doctor himself. - Mother was a collective farmer, and father was the chairman of the Chkalov collective farm in Kubina. Both worked from dawn to dawn, were an ordinary family, lived modestly, without frills.”
Soon my father was drafted into the army. Corporal Dagaz Khunov served the entire Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 as a reconnaissance observer of the headquarters battery. For his merits in the performance of particularly dangerous and important combat missions, he was awarded numerous awards and titles. And today we are sitting and talking with his son and granddaughter, who proudly and fondly tell me about him, in particular, about his post-war work as the head of the administration of the village council of Kubina village.
They collected and carefully kept this family archive: old photographs of relatives, newspaper clippings and books describing the glorious deeds of Dagaz and his ancestors ...
And here is another fact that immediately causes respect: this family maintains family ties with the half-brothers and sisters of Zaudin Dagazovich - Galina, Sveta, Zoya and Romik. This means a lot!
Childhood lessons
Until the third grade, Zaudin studied at a Kubina school. He was an inquisitive student with good academic performance, but the circumstances were such that almost all of the relatives on the maternal side were subjected to repression and sent to Central Asia.
“At some point, me and my mother and I, without any support, had no choice but to follow them,” recalls Zaudin Dagazovich. “On the way from home to a foreign land, we accidentally met fellow villagers - a married couple of the Khasarokovs, Ismail and Hadzhat. Having entered our difficult situation, they decided to help with money for the journey, without even thinking. It was a significant help at that time. Then I first understood how dignity, kindness and sympathy can manifest. I remember it for life and still do not forget.”
Little Zaudin and his mother settled in the city of Kurgan-Tube of the Tajik SSR, which was not far from the place of accommodation of their deported relatives. Mother got a job on the collective farm, often tried to visit and support her loved ones. Zaudin went to a new school, where it was necessary to get settled and continue training in a short time.
In addition to studying, he still had a lot to do, including supporting his mother, performing all male duties and homework in the family. Zaudin Dagazovich had to learn quite early hard lessons of life and strict discipline.
In 1957, the persecution of the repressed was left behind, and they returned with their relatives to their historical homeland - unfortunately, already without grandfather Mussa and grandmother Kianfo, who died in Tajikistan and were buried there.
Silver of an Abaza guy
In his native Kubina, everything was gradually getting better in the Khunovs' house, life was returning to its normal course. The young and purposeful youth wanted to get a secondary education, and in the village there was only eight years course. And for two years he was forced to walk 5 kilometers daily there and back to the city school No. 1 of the village of Dzhegutinskaya. It was one of the most prestigious schools in the region, where famous teachers worked, many of which Zaudin Dagazovich recalls with great gratitude and appreciation, by name: Klavdia Fedorovna Dolbina, Alla Mikhailovna Pamazanova, Alexander Yakovlevich Kasparyants, Dmitry Andreevich Kiselev. According to the doctor, they were able not only to give him knowledge, but also to cultivate the best human qualities in him.
“Three leaders immediately became apparent in the class - excellent students who were also friendly with each other - it was me, Misha Aksyonov and Sashka Saleiko, - Zaudin Dagazovich shares. - Since then, our close communication has never been interrupted. We were young and active, knowing the world, maybe we were mistaken somewhere, but these were the happiest years, when everything was just beginning ... ”
He graduated from high school in 1959 with a silver medal. This was the first victory of Zaudin, as well as all his relatives and fellow villagers.
“Professor Dowell's Head”
When Zaudin Dagazovich and I talked about his school teachers, I suggested that, probably, the chemist Alla Mikhailovna Pamazanova influenced the choice of his profession. But Khunov admitted that this decision came to him much earlier. And it all happened as follows.
At the age of twelve, an inquisitive boy accidentally came across an interesting book from the library. It was a very popular at that time science fiction novel by Alexander Belyaev, “Professor Dowell’s Head”.
“I read enthusiastically, without distracting: nothing has impressed me like this before, I was spellbound,” Zaudin Dagazovich recalls his childhood experience.
But the strangest thing, he said, began to happen to him later.
“I spent days and nights imagining details from the scenes of this novel in my head. Mentally connected the wires to the brain of the main character, accepted or denied the manipulation of Professor Kern. Sometimes I tried to find my own, another option for operations. In my fantasies of improving the functions of the brain and body, I went so far that, apparently, in this way I got to surgery,” says Zaudin Dagazovich, smiling.
The genes of the ancestors probably influenced the choice of life’s business. His grandfather, Askhad Khunov, was a well-known medical practitioner in Kubina, and the father of Hysdaut inherited the secrets of folk healing with herbs.
The final decision in which direction in medicine to move, Zaudin Dagazovich made in the fourth year of the Stavropol Medical Institute, which he graduated in 1966. As a student, he already made presentations at scientific conferences in Moscow, Leningrad, Krasnodar, Orenburg. Because of the desire to do more practical work, he entered part-time graduate school, although he was offered full-time study.
Both the doctor and the manager
During the formation and development of the healthcare system of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region, specialists of this level were “worth their weight in gold.” A promising graduate was sent to work as a surgeon in the Adyge-Khabl regional hospital.
“After a substantive conversation in the office of the head of the regional health department, Savva Dmitrievich Kazanchev, they decided to appoint me the head doctor of this hospital,” recalls Zaudin Dagazovich.
Serious and responsible work began. In a short period of time, the young leader managed to establish himself as a progressive manager, while remaining in the main staff of the operating surgeons of the hospital. Here his personal life took shape: he met his second half, a nurse Maria Muratovna Ozova, who was operating with him and became his wife and mother of his three children.
Over the twelve years of Khunov’s work at the head of the hospital, the infectious, pediatric and gynecological departments have opened and successfully functioned, and professional personnel have been selected who were able to acquire new knowledge and experience. With the direct participation of Zaudin Dagazovich, work began on the design and construction of a new clinic based on the hospital. All these undertakings had to be completed already by his students Khizir Badakhov and Vladimir Lafishev, since according to an official transfer in 1979, Khunov was appointed head doctor of the Ust-Dzheguta central district hospital.
“Ahead of time”
In the new hospital, where Zaudin Dagazovich worked for eight years, he also successfully combined a managerial position with operational surgery.
During this period, with his participation, polyclinics were commissioned in the town of Ust-Dzheguta and the village of Moscow, the construction of a local hospital and the design of the surgical building of the district hospital began. The magnificent surgeon was respected and admired by his colleagues and everyone who knew about him.
“Nowhere has I observed such a high level of organization of labor and discipline in a medical institution as that of Zaudin Dagazovich,” later shared her opinion, Honored Doctor of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Uzdenova Nina Soltanovna, who worked under the supervision of Khunov as a therapist in the Ust-Dzheguta district hospital as a young specialist, and then was his deputy in the “Solnechny” sanatorium. According to her, it always amazing to watch him constantly keeping up with the times, “and sometimes ahead of time.”
“He was constantly improving himself, mastering new specialties in medicine, and aimed his colleagues at it. The credibility of Zaudin Dagazovich in any team was unquestioned due to his competence, coupled with integrity and intelligence. His energy and industriousness charged everyone,” said Nina Soltanovna.
It is not surprising that the position of the chief physician of the first and only medical institution in Karachay-Cherkessia was offered to the surgeon Khunov.
“Solnechny”
In 1987, the infrastructure continued to actively develop in Cherkessk: new microdistricts, sports complexes, and social and educational institutions were being built. Thanks to the largest cement plant in Europe and its leader, Viktor Platonov, the first medical and preventive institution has appeared for workers at the plant. The sanatorium was equipped with the latest clinical diagnostic equipment at that time, there was a private well with thermal mineral iodine-bromine water. The hospital has become popular not only in Karachay-Cherkessia, but also in other regions of the North Caucasus and the South of Russia.
So began the story of the famous sanatorium “Solnechny”, which lasts more than three decades, and all this time it is headed by Zaudin Dagazovich.
It is not easy to be the first and maintain such high standards. I am asking the general director how they manage it, about plans and prospects.
“Now we are undergoing difficult times, but are full of optimism, we continue to treat every patient with care and attention, offer effective ways of prevention and recovery,” says Tatyana Zaudinovna.
I hear how in the corridor Zaudin Dagazovich greets one of the patients, asks about his health condition, and he responds with a playful remark: “The head doctor is at his post!” And I am surprised and happy with this man about the youthful and optimistic, full of energy surgeon. I clearly see that in front of me is an absolutely happy person. He continues active professional and social activities, shares his experience with colleagues, is a full member of the international association of urologists andrologists of the Russian Federation. And on December 14, he planned a trip to Yaroslavl to the congress of surgeons of Russia.
Personal - “excellent”
In addition to what I already told about my impressions of the Zaudin Dagazovich family, I would like to add that this family is a good example of the continuity of generations. Second daughter Lilya and son Aslan chose the profession of a father. After graduating from the Peoples' Friendship Institute of Russia in Moscow, for ten years both successfully worked in Moscow clinics and defended their dissertations.
But the proverb “a birthplace determines a walk of life” is about them. Returning home, they treat people in their native republic. As is common among the Abaza, he lives with his parents - until he is married - the only son Aslan. But for colleagues and patients, he, of course, is Aslan Zaudinovich. He holds the position of the head of the urological department of the Republican Oncology Center. Daughter, Lilya Zaudinovna Shebzukhova - head of the gynecological department of the Karachay-Cherkess Perinatal Center.
I also get acquainted with the fourteen-year-old senior granddaughter of Zaudin Dagazovich, Angelina, the daughter of Tatyana, who also dreams of becoming a doctor. Angelina very skillfully helped me with photographs of my grandfather for an essay, and also told me that grandfather is an excellent gardener, showing the photographs of real fruits of his this labour.
Already about to leave, I meet the younger grandchildren, three and one years old, who arrived late at night with their mother. To my question to the kids Ibrahim and Askhad: “Will you also be doctors like your “grandfather”? They nod their heads in unison, causing general delight and laughter.
Seeing such an idyll, with all my heart I rejoice at these beautiful, worthy people. Let them be fine!
We wish great happiness, health and many years of successful work to Zaudin Dagazovich and his entire friendly family!
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