[N.N. Burdenko and certain aspects of development of Russian neurosurgery].

The authors point out the outstanding merits of academician N. N. Burdenko in the organization and development of national neurosurgery, and also tremendous successes achieved by soviet specialists of neurosurgery in the diagnosis and treatment of mono- and multifocal epilepsy, cerebral vascular lesions, brain tumors in adults and children, craniocerebral trauma. An attention is given to the main tasks of further development of different aspects of neurosurgery.