Highlights the main milestones of scientific and practical activity of Professor Alexander Petrovich Tsulukidze (1888–1967) – Soviet urologist-surgeon, academician of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences (1955) and corresponding member of the AMN (1945) of the USSR. It is noted that during the first world war, Alexander Petrovich was a surgeon of an ambulance train on the Western front in 1915–1916. It is shown that from 1916 to 1922, he worked as a surgeon under the guidance of the outstanding Soviet surgeon Professor G.M. Mukhadze. In 1922–1924 and in 1926, A.P. Tsulukidze specialized in urology in Austria, Germany and France. It is emphasized that since 1927 Alexander Petrovich was a private assistant Professor of urology at the Department of hospital surgery of the medical faculty of Tbilisi University. It is also noted that since 1933 A.P. Tsulukidze headed the Department of surgery, and since 1953-the Department of urology of the Tbilisi state medical University. At the same time, in 1949–1953, A.P. Tsulukidze was the Director of the Tbilisi giduv. During the great Patriotic war, A.P. Tsulukidze was the chief surgeon of the evacuation hospitals of the people’s Commissariat of health of the Georgian SSR. Since 1959, Alexander Petrovich was the first Director of the research Institute of urology founded with his direct participation (now the National Center of urology named after A. Tsulukidze in Georgia), which he headed until 1965. It is noted that A.P. Tsulukidze is the author of more than 120 scientific works, including 16 monographs and manuals devoted mainly to the clinic and treatment of urolithiasis, bladder and prostate tumors, the use of bacteriophage in surgery, urology. Scientists have proposed a number of modifications of surgical interventions on the bladder and ureters. A.P. Tsulukidze was an honorary member of the all-Union society of urologists, editor of the editorial Department «Urology» of the 2nd edition of the BME and a member of the editorial Board of the journal «Urologiia».

Keywords: Urologiia magazine, bacteriophage in urology, bladder and prostate tumors, treatment of urolithiasis, A.P. Tsulukidze, biography