1984 Photo Contest, Arts and Sciences, Honorable mention
Photographer

Valery Khristoforov

ITAR-TASS

01 May, 1983

Original caption from World Press Photo (1984)

In an operation lasting several hours, surgeon Ramaz Datiashvili reattaches Rasa's feet to her legs at the All-Union Research Surgery Centre. Rasa (3) had an accident while playing and both of her feet were cut off by a mowing machine.

 

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About the photographer

Valery Khristoforov

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