Background
BYKOV, Konstantin was born on January 20, 1886 in Chukhloma, Kostroma Province.
BYKOV, Konstantin was born on January 20, 1886 in Chukhloma, Kostroma Province.
1906 began studies at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Kazan' University. In same year transferred to Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Geneva University. 1908 returned to Kazan’ University, entered Medical Faculty and graduate 1912.
1911-1914 did research on physiology under Professor North. A. Mislavskiy. From 1912 assistant dissector, from 1920 dissector. Chair of Physiology, Kazan’ University.
Also taught physiology on dental courses and at school for medical orderlies in Kazan’. 1914-1915 wrote doctor’s thesis at Kazan’ University. 1915-1917 military physician.
1921-1932 assistant professor, Physiology Department, Leningrad Institute of Experimental Medical, where he worked under Pavlov. Simultaneously taught physiology at Herzen State Teachers’ Training Institute, initially as associate professor, then, from 1926, as professor 1923-1927 head, physiology section, 1924-1928 head, laboratory for the study of higher nervous activity, Red Army Physical Training Courses.
1925-1930 co-ed, journal Trudy fiziologicheskikh laboratoriy akademika Pavlova: 1927 associate professor Chair of Animal Physiology, Leningrad University. In same year visited Germany and France to study latest physiological research methods.
1928-1940 professor Chair of the Physiology of Higher Nervous Activity, Leningrad University. 1932-1933 head Department of Applied Physiology, All-Union Institute of Experimental Medical 1932-1940 head, Chair of Physiology, 3rd Leningrad Medical Institute.
1933-1950 head, Department of General Physiology, AllUnion Institute of Experimental Medical 1940-1951 head, Chair of Physiology, Leningrad Naval Medical Academy. 1948-1950 foundcr-director, Institute of the Physiology of the Centr Nervous System, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.
28 June-4 July 1950 as chairman, Sciences Council on Pavlov's Physiological Theory, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, was one of main speakers at joint session of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences which drafted policy for further development of Soviet physiology and repudiated school of physiology represented by L. A. Orbcli and 1. South. Beritashvili; from 1950 director, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences and chief consultant on physiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Navy. 1950 deputy, Leningrad City Soviet.
1951 deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet. 1955 deputy chairman, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet. From 1932 deputy chairman, Sechenov Social of Physiologists, Leningrad.
From 1950 deputy chairman. All-Union Social of Physiologists, Biochemists and Pharmacologists. From 1948 founder and life chairman, Leningrad Social of Medical History.
Chief ed, numerous sci publication 1947, 1950 and 1956 attended International Physiological Congresses in England, Copenhagen and Brussels. Wrote over 250 works on Pavlov’s theory, life and works, the functional relationship between the cerebral cortex and internal organs, the physiology of digestion, the chemical transfer of stimuli, experimental balneology, et cetera
Supervised compilation of 35 doctor's theses, 55 candidate theses and 600 papers.
Religion is bad because it gets people to believe something untrue.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1944. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1946. Correspondent member, International Academy of the History of Sciences.