Nataliya Lenhauer

Natalia Andriivna Lengauer (20 August 1908 - 1997) was a Ukrainian ambulance doctor, Honored Doctor of the USSR (since 1950), Heroine of Socialist Labor.

Early life and education Natalia Lengauer was born on 20 August 1908 in the village of Kefalivka (now the town of Dolynska, Kirovohrad region) in a family of hereditary intellectuals. Her father, Andrii Ksaverovych Lengauer, a railway engineer, came from a family of German colonists who moved to the southern lands of the Russian Empire at the invitation of Empress Catherine II. Mother, Olga Markivna Chestakhivska, granddaughter of the artist Hryhoriy Mykolayovych Chestakhivsky, a close friend of Taras Shevchenko, the initiator of the reburial of Kobzar on Chernecha Hora.

Career Lengauer began working at the Kyiv Central Ambulance Station as a doctor in 1946, and from 1948 she headed it, working in this position until 1975. These were the years of rapid development of the station.

Natalia Lengauer achieved the introduction of specialized ambulance crews - psychiatric, neurological, toxicological, anti-shock, hematological, pediatric intensive care. Thanks to her perseverance, since the 1950s, ambulance substations were actively created on the Left Bank of Kyiv, in remote areas, and on the outskirts of the capital.

Since 1961, the development of the ambulance service began. For the first time in the USSR, Lengauer organized a specialized thromboembolic brigade (1961), which went on acute heart attacks.

In 1965, the station was approved by the School of Best Practices of the USSR;

For high merits in the organization of medical care, in particular, the creation of a unique cardiac service, Natalia Lengauer was awarded the Golden Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor.

Natalia Lengauer died in 1997. She was buried in Kyiv, in the Lukyaniv Cemetery (section No. 20).

Awards and honors

Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Honored Doctor of the Ukrainian SSR (1950). Diploma of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the USSR.