Background
Nikiforovsky Peter Mikhailovich was born on November 25, 1879 in Mahirovo village, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
Nikiforovsky Peter Mikhailovich was born on November 25, 1879 in Mahirovo village, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
Peter Mikhailovich graduated from the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg (1907).
At the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy Peter Mikhailovich worked as a trainee of the physiology department (1907-1910). In 1911-1912 Peter Mikhailovich was on a scientific trip to the physiological laboratories in Germany, Holland and England. The key positions held by Nikiforovsky include: doctor at the the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy at Peter Mikhailovich (1913-1917), the head assistant of the physiological Department at Institute of Experimental Medicine (1917-1919), head of the Department of physiology of Samara University (1920), head of the physiology department of medical faculty of Voronezh State University, then Voronezh State Medical Institute (1920-1939), head of the physiology department at Stavropol Medical Institute (1940-1947), Lviv University (since 1947).