To the Jubilee of Prof. Yury Ten

On November 18, 2025, Prof. Yury V. Ten, a member of the editorial Board of the journal Pediatric Surgery, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, celebrated his 75th anniversary. Prof. Ten’s name as a chief pediatric surgeon of the Altai Territory, a doctor of the highest category, an excellent healthcare worker, and a beloved national doctor, is known far beyond the region. Prof. Ten’s leading scientific interests are total plastic surgery of the esophagus in congenital malformations and cicatricial stenosis. He developed and implemented into surgical practice the improved techniques of surgical treatment of children with various planned and urgent surgical, urological, thoracic, coloproctological and gynecological pathologies. Being a head of the team of Altai pediatric surgeons, he participated in a unique surgery on the separation of conjoined twins, developed an original technique for suturing coloesophagoplasty, and implemented endoscopic surgery into the treatment of severe congenital malformations such as esophageal atresia, diaphragmatic hernias, megaureter, horseshoe kidney, and many others. Prof. Ten is an old-school man, so he is sure that his generation was strong in spirit and physically healthy only for the reason that they were deprived of many things in childhood, and were not spoiled with comfort. And the basic human qualities, which are important to him to this day, were instilled in him by his father, who “always repeated the same truths: study, work, be honest.” In his youth, Yuri Ten seriously thought of mathematical career, but due to a combination of circumstances, including his older brother’s advice, he entered a medical university. Prof. Ten calls , among his mentors, at least a dozen of outstanding names, explaining that he took something different from each one: he studied professionalism from the first pediatric surgeon of the Altai Territory Dr. I.N. Alexandrova, learned surgical techniques while observing surgeries made by drs. O.V. Mikryukova, Yu.V. Ermakov, and N.I. Agapov, and other famous surgeons of that time. The motto on the path in personal professional self-improvement were the words of a head of department of the Medical Institute Dr. M.D. Zhukov: “You will become a surgeon when you learn how to get out of any situation.”