Vladimir Golyakhovsky was a successful surgeon in Soviet Russia. In 1978, at the top of his surgical career, already a middle-aged man, he and his family left for America and began life anew. Unlike most emigrants who failed to work in their specialty in their new homeland, Vladimir Golyakhovsky and in America, as once in the USSR, went from a simple doctor to a professor at an American clinic and a well-deserved authority in the field of surgery. He told about all this in his two books - "Russian Doctor in America" and "American Doctor from Russia," published in "Zakharov. "telling about the "life" of medicine in the Soviet Union and about his life in it.