Contribution of academician V.P.Filatov to reconstruction of Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31288/oftalmolzh201767982Abstract
It is far from always that the many-sidedness of an outstanding person can completely be recognized, understood, and appreciated by his contemporaries. Much remains concealed in spite of publicity, availability, a great number of publications, etc. This is true for Academician V.P. Filatov, a most influential ophthalmologist of his time, a genius inventor, a talented physician and surgeon, a founder of the ophthalmological school in Ukraine, an irreplaceable leader of the largest Scientific Research Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy initiated by him and named after him. At the same time he had many other talents: he wrote stories [1, 2] and poems [3], draw pictures [8], participated in many, as we would call them now, “social projects” as meetings of Odessa artist, literary, and other societies. V.P. Filatov had unquenchable optimism, ever-living creative energy, and willing to cultivate kindness and mercy. Contemporaries loved and appreciated Academician V.P. Filatov both as a professional ophthalmologist and as a friend and a man of high integrity standards. Here is a poem devoted to him by Alexander De Ribas in 1928.
References
1.Filatov VP. [A lifelong story]. Kovalenko NB, comp. Odessa:Aprel;2001. 347 p. In Russian.
2. Filatov VP. [The last speech]. Donetsk:Nord-Press;2008. 456 p. In English.
3. Filatov VP. [Life… and Thoughts… and Love. Selected poems]. Kovalenko NB, comp. Odessa:Reklam servis; 2008. 219p. In Russian.
4. Filatov VP. [Don’t say with sorrow they are not but with gratitude they were…] Kovalenko NB, comp. Odessa:Aprel;2013. 151 p. In Russian.
5. Hegumenia Serafima. [Cathedral]. Odesskii vestnik. 118; 1994. In Russian.
6. [History of Orthodox Church in Ukraine]. Chetverta Khvylia; 1997. 292 p. In Ukrainian.
7.Historical notes about Odessa Cathedral. Odesskii vestnik.1857;35. In Russian.
8. Kovalenko NB. [A booklet dedicated to 130th birth anniversary of acad. V.P.Filatov]. Odessa:Pechatnyi dom; 2005. 33 p. In Russian.
9. Kovalenko NB. [Pages of our history]. Odessa: Aprel;2017. 380p. In Russian. (In printing].
10. Krpichnikov A. [A century of Odessa. August, 22nd, 1974- August 22nd, 1894]. Odessa. 1894.
11. Meshcheryakov VN. [Reconstruction of Odessa Transfiguration Cathedral]. Odessa:Feniks; 2017. 453p. In Russian.
12. Tymofienko VI. [Cross-dome churches in southern towns of Ukraine]. Pratsi Tsentru pamyatkoznavstva. K.:1992;1:90-103. In Ukrainian.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 D.Yu. Benik, N.F. Bobrova, D.V. Aleksa
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) that allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors hold copyright immediately after publication of their works and retain publishing rights without any restrictions.
- The copyright commencement date complies the publication date of the issue, where the article is included in.
DEPOSIT POLICY
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) during the editorial process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Post-print (post-refereeing manuscript version) and publisher's PDF-version self-archiving is allowed.
- Archiving the pre-print (pre-refereeing manuscript version) not allowed.
