Mirtovsky, Nikolai Vasilievich

Born in the family of a lawyer and teacher of a public school. In 1912 he graduated from the Saratov Real School and passed exams for a matriculation certificate.

In 1912 he entered the medical faculty of Saratov University, was engaged in tutoring. In 1915, moving to the last year of university, he spent several months as a volunteer in the Russian army on the Caucasus front, where he worked in a field hospital in Persia. In 1916 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and until the beginning of 1917 worked as a resident of the psychiatric hospital in the city of Saratov.

In 1917 - resident of the infirmary of the division of the Russian army on the North-Western Front. After the February Revolution of 1917, he was elected a member of the soldiers' committee of the division and was appointed to the position of chief physician of the infirmary.

In December 1917 he returned to the city of Saratov, where he was soon elected the resident of the medical faculty of the University of Saratov. Since 1920, he worked as a full-time assistant, since 1922 - a senior assistant, and since 1925 - a private assistant professor (after successfully defending a dissertation).

In 1930 he moved to the city of Dnepropetrovsk. In 1930-1932, he was the head of the Department of Nervous Diseases of the Dnipropetrovsk Institute for Advanced Medical Studies. In 1932-1941 - head of the Department of Nervous Diseases of the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Institute. Since January 1937, he served as dean of the medical faculty of the medical institute, and since 1938 he worked as deputy director of the Dnepropetrovsk medical institute for educational and scientific work.

During the Great Patriotic War he was evacuated in the eastern regions of the USSR, organized neurosurgical hospitals in the cities of Ordzhonikidze, Yerevan, Kuibyshev. In 1941 - professor of the Department of Nervous Diseases of the Stavropol Medical Institute. In 1941-1943 - Head of the Department of Nervous Diseases of the North Ossetian Medical Institute. In 1943-1944 - Head of the Department of Nervous Diseases of the Kuibyshev Medical Institute. In 1944 he returned to the city of Dnepropetrovsk.

In 1944-1955, he was the head of the Department of Nervous Diseases and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs at the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Institute.

In 1955 - April 1959 - Head of the Department of Nervous Diseases (Neurology) of the Lviv Medical Institute.

Areas of research: central mechanisms of regulation of the autonomic nervous system; study of the influence of the autonomic nervous system on metabolism, thermoregulation, cardiovascular system; the study of humoral metabolism in diseases of the nervous system, in particular, the relationship between calcium metabolism and convulsive syndrome, epilepsy, tetany; clinical experiments with tissue therapy for patients with parathyroid glands; autonomic and biochemical symptoms of lesions of the central nervous system; the study of pathogenesis, clinical symptoms and treatment of botulism; studies of the pathogenesis and clinic of acute cerebrovascular accident. The author of more than 40 scientific papers, among them 2 monographs.

He died in the city of Lviv. He was buried at Lychakiv cemetery.

• orders
• medals
• Honored Worker of Science of the Ukrainian SSR (1948)

• the newspaper "Zorya" (Dnepropetrovsk) - January 1947.
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