Vyrubov, Nikolai Alekseevich

Born on January 13 ( January 25 in a new style) in 1869 in a village on the Coastal-Vitim gold-mining mines of the Russian Empire. Descended from the old noble family Vyrubovyh , leading its origin from the time of Ivan the Terrible. In the year Nicholas was born, his father, Alexei Alekseevich Vyrubov (1841–1900), defended his thesis for the degree of doctor of medicine and moved to the city of Oryol, having worked there his whole future life as a senior doctor of the Oryol-Vitebsk railway .

Nikolai Vyrubov spent his childhood and youth in Orel , where in 1888 he graduated from a local gymnasium. Having moved to Moscow , he entered the medical faculty of Moscow University , which he graduated in 1893. While still a student, he participated in the work of an anthropological expedition in the Caucasus , for which he was accepted as a member of the Imperial Moscow Society of amateurs of natural science, anthropology and ethnography. In 1894, he was appointed as a supernumerary medical officer at the Medical Department, who sent him to the Imperial Military Medical Academy to continue his studies. August 14, 1895 by personal request resigned from service.

In 1895-1897 he worked as a doctor of the Zemlyansky district zemstvo, in November 1897 he again became an extra-lance medical officer at the Medical Department and was sent to St. Panteleimon St. Petersburg hospital to improve psychiatry. In 1899 he defended his doctoral thesis "On the degeneration of nerve cells and fibers in the spinal cord with increasing paralysis dementia", the reviewer of which was VM Bekhterev .

From May 1900 to January 1901, Vyrubov was on a foreign business trip for the purpose of scientific improvement. Most of the time spent in Germany at the University of Heidelberg . During the holidays I got acquainted with clinics and institutions for the mentally ill in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Upon returning to Russia, from April 1901 to August 1907, he was director of the psychiatric hospital of the Voronezh provincial zemstvo in the village of Orlovka . In 1907, he visited Germany again, and attended courses for psychiatrists at the clinic of Professor E. Crepelin in Munich .

In 1909, N. A. Vyrubov founded the Kryukovo sanatorium near Moscow for the treatment of psychoneuroses using the methods of psychoanalysis, which he directed until the end of 1912. In December 1910, he was recognized by the medical faculty of Moscow University as worthy of the rank of privat-docent , but was not approved in this rank. Since March 1913 was an assistant at the Department of Psychiatry of the Higher Women's Courses. Since 1914, in connection with the outbreak of the First World War , Vyrubov was engaged in the treatment and research of wartime psychoses and psychoneuroses. He worked at the Moscow Hospital for Mentally Sick Soldiers, and also participated in the work of the psychiatric commission of the Red Cross. From the same year he became a private assistant professor at the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases of Moscow University. From April 20, 1917 - an extraordinary professor of the Department of Systematic and Clinical Teaching on Nervous and Mental Diseases of Kazan University .

After the October Revolution , in connection with the outbreak of the Civil War , N. A. Vyrubov in September 1918 was evacuated to Tomsk . Until January 1, 1919, he served as assistant professor at the Medical Faculty of Tomsk University . Since 1919, he simultaneously taught psychology at the pedagogical department of the Siberian Higher Women's Courses. At the end of 1919, Nikolai Alekseevich Vyrubov left for Irkutsk .

The date and place of his death Vyrubova remained unknown. Various sources report the years 1918, 1919 and 1920 (most often mentioned is the year 1920).

He was awarded a silver medal in memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III . ^[1] His son Dmitry (1900–1978) is a scientist in the field of engine building.

• Professors of Tomsk University: Biographical Dictionary / S.F. Fominykh, S.A. Nekrylov, L.L. Bertsun, A.V. Litvinov. Tomsk, 1998. T. 2.
• Kazan State Medical University (1804–2004): Heads of Chairs and Professors: Biographical Dictionary / Edited by V.Yu. Albitsky, N.Kh. Amirov. Kazan, 2004.
• The history of psychology in the faces. Personalii / Ed. L.A. Karpenko // Psychological Lexicon. Encyclopedic dictionary in six volumes / Editor-compiler LA. Karpenko. Edited by A.V. Petrovsky. M., 2005.

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