Russia’s oldest working surgeon (Picture: Alexander Ryumin/TASS/Getty)

A surgeon is still performing hundreds of operations a year despite reaching the age of 89.

Alla Illyinichna Levushkina works at a hospital in Russia where she carries out operations every day.

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She starts work every day at 8am and with a remarkable 67 years of service behind her, she’s carried out more than 10,000 surgeries.

She is proud of her track record – zero fatalities – and is living her childhood dream.


Alla is single, but she lives in a flat where she is a carer for her disabled nephew and she has eight cats.

She looks after her disabled nephew (Picture: Alexander RyuminTASS via Getty Images)

Would you go under her knife? (Picture: Alexander Ryumin/TASS/Getty)

She said: ‘I work and everything. I have nothing to do in retirement. Doctor – it is not just a profession it’s a way of life. Why else would the surgeon live, if not to work?’



Average Russians retire in their mid-fifties – but not Alla who became the oldest surgeon still working in the world. She added: ‘I didn’t find any secret to longevity. I just eat everything, laugh a lot and cry a lot.

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‘I work because it’s interesting to me, and also because I like to win. I like to help people achieve remissions.

‘There are people I saved many years ago when nobody else wanted to perform an operation on them. And I did that and they are still alive and have grown up children.’

She performs no less than four surgeries per week (Picture: Alexander RyuminTASS via Getty Images)

Most Russian retire in their 50s (Picture: Alexander RyuminTASS via Getty Images)