[Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov: at the beginning (to the 220th anniversary of the greatest surgeon and anatomist birth)].

The article is concern with years of youth of the greatest Russian surgeon and anatomist Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov, his education in Moscow and Derpt University. Formation of N.I. Pirogov as a surgeon of a new type following by the deepest anatomical knowledge is showed. There is a supposition that with the departure from Derpt to Saint-Petersburg Pirogov's initial phase of work ended and began his new, mature period of work.