Zdrodovsky, Pavel Feliksovich

He was born on May 4 ( May 16 according to a new style) in 1890 in the city of Uralsk of the Russian Empire, now Kazakhstan .

His father, Felix Frantsevich, a Pole from the village of Zdrody, Mozovetsky district of the Lomzhinsky province, served in Russia, where he married a Russian girl - a peasant woman, Glykeria Petrovna. Felix Frantsevich died of tuberculosis when his son was only 7 years old. The mother was left with three children and without a livelihood.

Education

He graduated from the Ural Theological College, and then studied at the Orenburg Theological Seminary (did not graduate). He worked as a teacher in a rural school, and in 1909 entered the medical faculty of Kazan University .

In the spring of 1914 he was mobilized and sent by a doctor to the front of the First World War. In 1916, while still in military service, he passed state exams and received a diploma of a “doctor” with honors.

Start of business

After demobilization in 1917, he lived in Rostov-on-Don, where he worked at the Don Bacteriological Institute as the head of cholera, typhoid and diagnostic departments. In 1920 he defended a doctoral dissertation in medicine at Don University. In the same year, he volunteered for the Red Army and, as an epidemiologist in the 11th Army, was sent to fight malaria in Baku.

In 1922-1930, Zdrodovsky worked as director of the Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene created on his initiative in Baku ( Azerbaijan ). At the same time he taught as an assistant, associate professor and head of the Department of Microbiology of Baku University. He developed an action plan to combat malaria, participated in expeditions, led the work of all malaria stations in the republic.

In 1930, he moved to Leningrad to work at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, where he headed the epidemiology sector and the vaccine-serum production department.

Repression

On the night of October 30, 1938 P.F. Zdrodovsky was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrskaya prison. On May 15, 1939, he was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR under article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code to 15 years of imprisonment with a 5-year loss of rights, with confiscation of property, despite his refusal to plead guilty. After the trial, he was sent on a stage to the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, where he worked on road construction, logging and other hard work. Then he was transferred to the Karaganda forced labor camp.

In the first half of 1939 the sentence was canceled and the case was sent for further investigation, and he himself was returned to Moscow and again imprisoned in Butyrskaya prison. In the spring of 1941, a transfer to Sukhanov prison followed. Despite the fact that even after the “further investigation” he refused to plead guilty, the collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on July 7, 1941 again convicted him under Article 58 and again sent him to the camps of the Komi ASSR. There he worked as a nurse at the hospital.

In early 1942, Zdrodovsky was taken by special convoy to Moscow in an internal prison, where he worked in a special laboratory of the NKVD , specializing in the study of the causative agent of typhus. On November 6, 1944, he was released according to the decision of the Special Meeting at the NKVD of the USSR of November 1, 1944 with the right to reside in Moscow.

Post-release activities

In 1945, he was appointed head of the department of experimental pathology and immunology at the N.F. Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology . From that time until the end of his life, he studied the problem of rickettsioses, developed methods for their prevention using live and chemical vaccines.

In 1949 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

On May 12, 1956, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR sentence for the absence of corpus delicti was canceled.

In March 1966, he signed a letter of 13 figures of Soviet science, literature and art to the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee against the rehabilitation of I. V. Stalin ^[1] .

He died on July 24, 1976 . He was buried at Kuntsevsky cemetery (10th section).

Family

Zhenya (first) Valentina Georgievna Mamina

Wife (second?) - Golinevich, Elena Mikhailovna .

• By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 15, 1970, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR Zdrodovsky Pavel Feliksovich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle."
• Laureate of the Lenin (1959) and Stalin (1949) Prizes.
• He was awarded the Order of Lenin, two orders of the Red Banner of Labor and medals.
• He was awarded the Gold Medal named after I.I. Mechnikov of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1967).
• He was elected Honorary Doctor of the Cracow Medical Academy, Honorary Member of the Society of Tropical Pathology of France, and received the title of Laureate of the French National Academy of Medicine.

• Zdrodovsky P.F. On the physiological basis of immunity. M., 1950;
• Zdrodovsky P.F. Brucellosis: Modern doctrine as applied to human pathology. - 4th ed., Ext. - M .: Medgiz , 1953.- 244 p.
• Zdrodovsky P. F. The doctrine of rickettsia and rickettsiosis. - 2nd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Medgiz , 1956.- 492 p.
  • 3rd ed. 1968
• Zdrodovsky P.F. Problems of infection, immunity and allergies. - M .: Medgiz , 1961 .-- 366 p.
• Zdrodovsky P.F. Problems of infection, immunity and allergies. - 2nd ed., Revised. - M .: Medgiz , 1963 .-- 467 p.
  • 3rd ed. 1972 (shared with E.M. Golinevich)
• Zdrodovsky P.F. Typhus and Brill's disease: (Etiology, pathology, epidemiology and prevention). - M .: Medicine , 1965. - 206 p.
• Zdrodovsky P.F. Matrix-genetic theory of immunogenesis and its neurohumoral regulation. M., 1966.

• Zdrodovsky Pavel Feliksovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• Golinevich E.M.P. F. Zdrodovsky. M., 1987.
• Kuzmin M.K. Medical scientists - Heroes of Socialist Labor. M., 1988.

• Zdrodovsky, Pavel Feliksovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Zdrodovsky Pavel Feliksovich - immunologist and microbiologist