Aleksandr Voznyak

Candidate of medical sciences, dean of neurosurgery chair of national medical academy of Shupik, a head of neurosurgery clinics of Feofaniya hospital (Kiev) Aleksandr Voznyak, in Kiev, on Monday, July 4, 2011. The highest Ukrainian Leonid Stadnik was operated and now his growth may stop. The patient was operated on pituitary adenoma. After that, a growth of hormone which is a reason of a disease must be normalized. A height of Leonid Stadnik is 2 m 50 cm. The state of the patient is satisfactory, he has already been discharged from a hospital. Leonid Stadnik was declared the highest Ukrainian in 2007 He was also invited to officially pass the test for the right to be called the highest in the world. But Stadnik refused Guinness World Records to measure the growth according to the new rules: six times during the day, standing and lying down. Photo by Andrey Skakodub / UNIAN