Leonid Nikolaevich Solomin, after graduating with honors from the Blagoveshchensk State Medical University in 1986, specialized in traumatology and orthopedics. Since 2000 he has been a leading researcher and Orthopedic Surgeon at Vreden National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics (St. Petersburg, Russia). His focus is on the development, perfection, substantiation and clinical application of external and combined fixation in fractures, non-unions, deformations, defects of the long bones and foot, including congenital and infection problems, and limb lengthening and reconstruction. He is honorable Professor of Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center "Restorative Traumatology and Orthopedics" (Kurgan, Russia), and a member of ASAMI International, ASAMI Russia, AO/OTA.