Olga Bukhanovo biography

President of the Phoenix medical and rehabilitation center, professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology of the Rostov Medical University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Member of the Two American Academies, Honorary Member of the Association of European Psychiatrists of this title, only four Russian experts, a foreign member of the American Psychiatric Association APA.

Born on February 22 in the city of Grandfather, Aram Samuilovich Sargsyanz, - the organizer of healthcare in Grozny. Wife - Inna Borisovna Bukhanovskaya, economist. Daughter - Olga Alexandrovna Bukhanovskaya - psychiatrist, chief physician of the Phoenix center. However, I did not find details. Olga Bukhanovskaya: Dad had a biological father, about whom he learned in years before that he believed that his father died during the Great Patriotic War.

At the end of the war, he ended up in Berlin, on the American side. For some reason, he decided to leave for America. After the war, he proposed to move to the USA and grandmother, his wife. Grandmother and great -grandmother categorically said no. At that time, such kinship was afraid to advertise. In addition, the stepfather appeared - Olympius Maksimovich, who from the first day treated Alexander well, and he considered him his dad.

Father always called Olympia Maksimovich only a dad, and when someone called him a stepfather, he was very angry. Grandfather Joseph always tried to find out about the fate of his son, wrote letters. But the grandmother hid all this. Years later, she explained: she was afraid of repressions, suddenly they would evict somewhere when his father served in Severomorsk, he filed an application for joining the party.

My father was an “advanced” person, patriot, communist. The decisions on his application were not made for a long time, he was alert. And one evening he was called. The special department was asked: “Why are you deceiving the party? But his uncle, his brother, lives somewhere abroad. ” They say to him: "No, your dad lives in America." Father returned home in shock, did not sleep all night, said nothing, and then could not stand it for the first time when I was nine years old, he, respectively, was 34 years old.

In total, they met eight times, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, America. Grandfather Joseph died in the year. Olga Bukhanovskaya: He became a builder. He came to America, as he himself said, with five dollars. He built his life himself, with his labor. For many years he had been waiting for my father's arrival with his grandmother. And then, when it became clear that they would not come, he married, he had three children, two brothers and sister.

The wife of the American grandfather was also called Evelina, like my grandmother. Such a coincidence. Olga Bukhanovskaya: Probably she is from Ukraine, an emigrant. Evelina treated us very well.

After the death of Grandfather Joseph, we continued to communicate for ten years, until her death. I, dad and my son, went to say goodbye to her to America, and after eight to nine days she died when the youngest of Joseph's sons was ten years old, grandfather put them all together with his wife and said: "You have a brother, he lives in Russia." They all wrote by writing, talked about themselves.

My dad always said: I have two fathers and two mothers. Olga Bukhanovskaya: Grandfather Joseph was very proud of his father. They showed friends, shouted that it was “Uncle from Russia” “Uncle from Russia”. Dad was always a family man, for him the family was the most valuable. Someone teased him: of course, this is because the family is American, and they have money.

This is not so, it was a sincere relationship. He knew everything about everyone, was interested in what. As far as possible, he prompted something. He recalls how his mother brought homeless people, fed them with borsch, cooked grandmother. Grandma cursed, but mom still fed hungry. It was in Grozny. Olga Bukhanovskaya: He loved the formidable. He has a lot of friends left there.

For him, people from Chechnya, any nationality - it was sacred. He said that they had a very friendly courtyard, they always gathered together. At the holidays and without reason, they always played in the lotto, in cards for money. It was always noisy and fun. They sang songs. Dad often recalled this, said that his grandfather headed the medical service in Grozny, he also fed the poor, sick.

Olga Bukhanovskaya: Dad dreamed of becoming an investigator or working as a criminalist in the police. And he decided that after school he would go to the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But the grandmother knew that he had dad abroad. Familiar from law enforcement agencies advised her: “Lyalya, you understand that if he goes there, they will begin to check it.

And then it will open that his dad is alive. There may be trouble. Look yourself, but it’s better not to advertise. ” And then his father was categorically forbidden to enter the academy. Dad could not understand anything, but he was an obedient son and went to a medical school. After the medical school, he came to Rostov, to enter the Medical Institute. The relatives of the grandmother lived here, there was where to stop.

He entered the medical faculty, not immediately became interested in psychiatry. Is it true that in Rostov they were one of the first in the USSR to engage in transgender in the inconsistency between the anatomical and psychological floors?Olga Bukhanovskaya: Before transsexualism, the genetics of schizophrenia patients always wanted to do something new. He said that he went to lectures to Moscow.

For a day, for two. Only in order to listen to the professor of Snezhnevsky Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky - a Soviet psychiatrist. Father sat on the floor and recorded. He was a very curious person. And at that time - at the beginning of X - one of the interesting topics was genetics. He became interested in this. Then it was not very welcomed, but for him this topic was extremely important.

His next hobby is transsexualism. I remember that the transsexuals lived at our house - they came from all over the Union, and they were not always hospitalized at the Medical Institute. They appeared like snow on their heads. From other republics. It was the beginning of the eighties. Olga Bukhanovskaya: Someone asked to advise the patient. The doctors decided that the patient had something wrong with his head.

Father consulted. And carried away. Diagnosed. This was new in psychiatry. Dad began to read literature in translations, there was nothing in Russian. People did not understand this problem. Then, for sodding, one could get a deadline.