Background
Mikhail Akimovich Morozov was born on January 11, 1897 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Mikhail Akimovich Morozov was born on January 11, 1897 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Mikhail Akimovich graduated from the Voronezh gymnasium (1898), the medical faculty of Moscow University (1904). For participation in student unrest was exiled to Voronezh (1899).
Mikhail Akimovich Morozov was a district health officer of the Voronezh county council, head of smallpox calf house (since 1904). Member of the Russian-Japanese and the 1st World War, military doctor.
He organized one of the first Pasteur stations in Russia in the Voronezh province (1914). Prorector of the bacteriology department of the Voronezh State University (1921-1923). Director of the Central State Smallpox Institute (1923-1936). Head of the smallpox department of the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamalei of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (since 1936).
Mikhail Akimovich participated in the development of the first programs to combat smallpox in the USSR. He first described the viral smallpox disease - paravaccin, developed a method for detecting viruses using silver impregnation (1925). The works of Morozov are devoted to the study of smallpox of people and animals.