Background
Anatoly Nikolayevich Klimov was born on June 14, 1920 in Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation.
Anatoly Nikolayevich Klimov was born on June 14, 1920 in Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation.
Anatoly Klimov graduated from the school in 1939 in Leningrad and entered the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov.
In July 1943 Anatoly Nikolayevich became a senior doctor of the 1920th self-propelled artillery regiment. From March to July 1944 he was a doctor of the Lithuanian partisan brigade "Zalgiris" in the rear of the German troops. In August 1944 Anatoly Nikolayevich was sent to the position of chief doctor in the 49th heavy mortar brigade. He served in the army and in the Central Group of Forces (Czechoslovakia, Hungary).
From November 1946, Anatoly Nikolayevich worked as a research assistant, then senior research fellow and senior professor of the Department of Biochemistry of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov. In January 1963 he became director of the Leningrad Institute of Antibiotics. In July 1965 Anatoly Nikolayevich was sent to Geneva, where he was director of the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the World Health Organization. Returning to Leningrad in January 1970, he headed the laboratory of lipid metabolism, the department of biochemistry of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Since January 1997 to the present time he works as a chief scientific employee of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the RAMS. For many years he studied antibiotics, lipoprotein exchange, atherosclerosis.
Anatoly Nikolayevich Klimov is a Honorary Member of the Hungarian (1976) and Cuban Atherosclerosis Societies (1987), Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Experimental Medicine (1996) Petersburg Branch of the Russian Biochemical Society.