Background
VOROB’YOV, Vladimir was born on June 27, 1876 in Odessa.
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Vladimir Petrovich VOROB’YOV
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1903 graduate Medical Faculty, Khar’kov University.
Career
From 1903 assistant professor, Chair of Anatomy, Khar’kov University. Then studied anatomy under Professor Stied in Königsberg. 1908 defended doctor’s thesis.
From 1910 associate professor and head, Chair of Anatomy, Khar’kov Women's Medical Institute. 1913 elected professor, Yur’yev Medical Institute, but Minister of Education Kasso refused to confirm his appointment. The same occurcd when he was elected professor of Warsaw University.
1917-1937 professor, Khar’kov Medical Institute. Pioneer of functional anatomy. Considered every anatomical object an integral part of a single entity — the living human body — formed as a result of ontophylogenesis and modified under environmental conditions.
Devised macro-microscopic method of studying human tissues. Studied his specimens stereometrically, in three dimensions. Using his method, organs and tissues could be studied in relation to the body as a whole.
In effect, discovered a new field of morphology which he called the “border area of macro-microscopic vision”. Studied vegetative nervous ganglia and plexi of internal organs. Drew up an exhaustive picture of the distribution of nerve ganglia and plexi of the heart, larynx, lungs, esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, womb and spleen.
Devised original method of preparing anatomical museum specimens. Also developed a method of sutured electrodes and effective methods for prolonged preservation of dead tissue and the restoration of their in vitam coloring. Founded in Khar’kov unique Museum of Manitoba’s Development.
Compiled original Atlas anatomii cheloveka (An Atlas of Human Anatomy) (5 volume, 1938-1942). Together with B.I. Zbarskiy, devised a new method of preserving corpses. Helped embalm Lenin’s body.
Company-ed, 1st ed of "Biomedical Engineering” (Large Medical Encyclopedia). Member, All-Ukraine Central Executive Committee from 1935. Pubt: Vynikhi kostey zapyast'ya (Dislocations of the Carpal Bones) (1908).
“Die Methode der Durchleuchtung und ihre Anwendung bei Untersuchung der Magennerven” (1910). Nervy zheludka sobak (The Gastric Nerves of Dogs) (1913). K topografii uzlov i stvolov na serdtse cheloveka (The Topography of Ganglia and Trunks of the Human Heart) (1917).
“Methodik der Untersuchungen von Ncrvcnclementen des Makround Mikroskopischen Gebietes” (1927). Differentsial'naya okraska spinnomozgvykh i simpaticheskikh nervov (Differential Staining of the Cerebrospinal and Sympathetic Nerves) (1935). Cipoteza Vice-President Vorob’yova o roll limfoidnoy tkani v pishchevaritel’noy trubke cheloveka i zhivotnykh (Vice-President Vorob’yov’s Hypothesis on the Role of the Lymphoid Tissue in the Digestive Tract of Manitoba and Animals) (1937).
Religion
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Member, Ukraine Academy of Sei from 1934.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics