Konstantin Buteyko

Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (January 27, 1923 – May 2, 2003) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet physician and the creator of the Buteyko method for the treatment of asthma and other breathing disorders.

Early life

Buteyko was born in 1923 into a farming family in Ivanitsa,

He was accepted to Kyiv Polytechnic Institute to study mechanics, but World War II interrupted his studies and he spent four years "fixing cars, tanks and artillery for the Soviet army"

Personal life

In 1969, Buteyko's future wife Ludmila read about Buteyko through a newspaper article and reached out by writing a letter. At the time, Ludmila and her son, Andrey, were in Moscow and Buteyko was in Siberia, but during his next visit to Moscow, Buteyko visited the two at their home and taught them the method. Ludmila and Andrey later also became teachers of the Buteyko method.

Buteyko also had a son, Vladimir Buteyko.

Buteyko died in Moscow, Russia on May 2, 2003, aged 80, and was buried in Feodosia, Crimea.

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