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Stepan Rudansky

Died in 1873

Stepan Rudansky was born in 1834 in Khomutyntsi, in Podolia, the son of a village priest. A pupil of the Charhorod bursa and of the Kamianets-Podilskyi seminary, he entered the Academy of Medicine and Surgery in Saint Petersburg in 1856, against his father's wishes, as a mere auditor; without support, he contracted tuberculosis there. Appointed town doctor of Yalta in 1861, he opened the first medical library in Crimea there and treated the poor free of charge. He translated the Iliad into Ukrainian. Having fallen ill while fighting cholera in 1872, he died in Yalta in 1873.

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