"The Way to the Heart" is a book about our contemporaries, about the people of Soviet medicine. The life of the heroes is full of intense, sometimes dramatic struggle with disease, with death. In the struggle for the life of their patients, those who combine great science with true love for a sick person win. Such is a wonderful surgeon P.A. Kupriyanov, such are the doctors of the Burn Center at the Leningrad Military Medical Academy named after CM. Kirov, employees of blood transfusion institutes in Moscow and Leningrad. Part of the chapters of the book introduces the reader to creative laboratories, where the weapon of medicine is forged. Here the pharmacologist Professor N.V. Lazarev, justifies and prepares the new successes of surgeons pathophysiologist Professor I.R. Petrov, here invent the latest medical devices and tools friendly teams of doctors and engineers. "The Way to the Heart" is a book about the triumph of advanced scientific thought, about the victories of Russian science.