Background
GRASHCHENKOV, Nikolay was born on March 26, 1901 in village Zabor, now Smolensk Oblast.
Neurologist and neurophysiologist
GRASHCHENKOV, Nikolay was born on March 26, 1901 in village Zabor, now Smolensk Oblast.
1926 graduated Medical Faculty, Moscow University. 1932 graduated Red Professor Institute of Philosophy and Natural Science.
Professor; Doctor of Medicine Science since 1935. Corresponding member, USSR Academy of Science, since 1939. Full member, Belarusian Academy of Sciences, since 1947.
Full member, USSR Academy of Medical Science, since 1944. Head, Chair of Nervous Diseases, Moscow Central Postgraduate Medicine Institute, and Head, Clinical Physiological Laboratory, USSR Academy of Science and USSR Academy of Medical Science, since 1951. Head, Chair of Nervous Diseases, Sechenov 1st Moscow Medicine Institute, since 1958.
1935-1937 worked at University laboratories in: Cambridge (England), New York, New Haven and Boston (United States of America) and Montreal (Canada), studying sensatory organs and electrophysiology of nervous system. 1950 helped smash Orbeli physiological school. 1951-1958, Chairman, Learned Medicine Council, USSR Ministry of Health.
Member, Higher Certifying Commission, USSR Ministry of Health. Deputy Chief Editor, “Bolshaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition. Member, Editor Council, journals “Voprosy neyrokhirurgii” (Problems of Neurosurgery), “Zhumal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii im.
S. S. Korsakova” (Korsakov Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry), etc. V.-President, European Regional Committee, USSR World Health Organization. 1955 attended International Congress of Neuropathologists, London.
1957 attended 10th General Assembly session of World Health Organization. 1959 accompanied Director of World Health Organization, M. G. Kandau, on his trip through Uzbekistan. Main works on physiology and pathology of sensatory organs, electrophysiology of central nervous system, traumatic lesions and infectious diseases of nervous system.
1926-1933 at Medicine Faculty, Moscow University, reorganized in 1930 into Sechenov 1st Moscow Medicine Institute, and then at All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine. 1937-1939 USSR First Deputy Popular Commissar of Health, then Acting USSR Popular Commissar of Health. 1933-1944 Director, All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine.
1941-1945 consultant for neuropathology and neurosurgery in many units of active army. 1944-1948 Director, Institute of Neurology, USSR Academy of Medical Science. 194751 President, Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
There is no conclusive logical argument for the existence of God. His existence is continuously debated.
Member, Communist Party, since 1918.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, USSR Academy of Sciences from 1939. Member, Belorussian Academy of Sciences from 1947. Member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences from 1944.
Communist Party member from 1918.