Background
KRESTOVNIKOV, Aleksey was born in 1885.
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Aleksey Nikolayevich KRESTOVNIKOV
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1912 graduate Natural Sciences Faculty, Moscow University. 1923 graduate 1st Leningrad Medical Institute.
Career
From 1923 senior associate, I. P. Pavlov’s Laboratory, then assistant to L. A. Orbcli, Physiological Department, and from 1927 professor and head, Chair of Physiology, P. F. Lesgaft Sciences Institute. Specialized in the physiology of physical exercise and sport. Demonstrated experimentally that physical exercise affects all systems of the internal organs, increases the strength and motility of nervous processes, enhances the stimulus level and lability of the respiratory apparatus and improves the functions of the visual, motor and vestibular analyzers.
Contributed to the discovery of the basic laws governing the formation of motor habits and the development of motor characteristics. Demonstrated that the improvement of working capacity by physical exercise is a complex integral process resulting from the improvement of the regulatory mechanisms. Also did considerable research on sport training and the effect of individual exercises.
Worte over 200 works.
Religion
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.
