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{{Infobox Medical Person
|name                    = Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov 
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|caption                 = Svyatoslav Fyodorov 
|birth_date              = August 8, 1927 
|birth_place             = [[Proskurov]], [[Ukrainian SSR]] 
|death_date              = {{Death date and age|2000|06|02|1927|08|08}}  
|death_place             = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] 
|profession              = [[Surgeon]] and [[Politician]]
|specialism              = [[Ophthalmology]], [[Eye surgery]], 
|research_field          = [[radial keratotomy]]<br> [[intraocular lens|intraocular lens replacement]]  
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|known_for               = Creating radial keratotomy 
|education               = [[Rostov on Don|Rostov]] Medical Institute
|work_institutions       = Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery 
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'''Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov''' ({{Lang-ru|'''Святослав Николаевич Фёдоров'''}}; born August 8, 1927 – June 2, 2000) was a [[Russia]]n [[Ophthalmology|ophthalmologist]], [[Eye surgery|eye microsurgeon]], creator of [[radial keratotomy]], professor, full member of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] and [[Russian Academy of Medical Sciences]] and [[politician]].

[[Fyodorov]] was born in ''Proskurov'', [[Ukrainian SSR]] (now [[Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine]]), to ethnic [[Russians|Russian]] parents. Graduated from [[Rostov on Don|Rostov]] Medical Institute, then worked as a practicing ophthalmologist in a small town in [[Rostov Oblast]]. In 1960 he performed the first in the [[Soviet Union]] [[intraocular lens]] replacement operation. In 1980 he became a head of ''Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery''. 

Fyodorov was a member of the [[Congress of People's Deputies]] in 1989-1991. He was elected to the lower house of the Russian parliament, the [[State Duma]], in 1993. He ran for [[President of Russia|president]] in 1996.

Returning from an academic conference in 2000, Fyodorov died in the crash of his clinic's four-seater [[helicopter]] on the outskirts of [[Moscow]].

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