Background
Vladimir Pravdich-Neminsky was born in Kyiv in Polish-Ukrainian aristocratic family of Neminsky of Prawdzic coat of arms.
Vladimir Pravdich-Neminsky was born in Kyiv in Polish-Ukrainian aristocratic family of Neminsky of Prawdzic coat of arms.
In 1901-1903 he studied in Kazan University, then coming back to Kyiv to continue education in Kyiv University.
He was a representative of Kiev Physiological School. He was a victim of Soviet repressions. In 1908 he obtained a position at physiology chair to study nervous system and to teach physiology and chemistry.
During Ukrainian–Soviet War in 1919 he was mobilized to Red Army to fight epidemic typhus while he fell ill too.
In 1922-1929 he worked in different research institutions in Ukraine. In late 1929 he was arrested and sentenced to 3 years prison in Arkhangelsk.
In 1949 Pravdich-Neminsky was allowed to live and work in Moscow which meant all accusations were taken official He was a head in Laboratory of Cerebrography of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences until death.
Later in 1932-1944 he was teaching physiology in a few colleges and universities being every time fired and accused as a member of "old regime bourgeois intellectuals".
