Rinat Kharisovich Galeev has died at the age of 73 after long illness on January 14, 2019. He was the founder of transplantology of Tatarstan Republic, Honored doctor of the Russian Federation and Tatarstan Republic, Member of the European and Russian Society of urologists, transplantologists, oncologists. More than 40 years he was engaged in medical activity, he led the urological department and department of kidney transplantation of Republican Clinical Hospital during 30 years.