Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, cardiologist Evgeny Ivanovich Chazov passed away at the age of 93 in Moscow. A prominent cardiologist and scientist, the founder of thrombolytic therapy. It is no exaggeration to say about Evgeny Ivanovich that he saved millions of lives. His bold scientific developments in the treatment of patients with heart attacks, new approaches to the treatment of thrombosis have been widely used in our country, in Europe and the USA.