Background
Vlail Petrovich Kaznacheev was born on July 17, 1924.
Vlail Petrovich Kaznacheev was born on July 17, 1924.
Vlail graduated secondary school in Novosibirsk in 1942. After graduation, he planned to enter the conservatoire in the vocal class. In the same year Vlail was conscripted into the ranks of the Red Army. In 1945, he was demobilized because of the wound to the neck. The singer's career could be forgotten after this. In the same year he entered the Novosibirsk Medical Institute. After the graduation he stayed at the native institute.
From 1950 to 1964 successively: intern, assistant, associate professor, professor of the department of faculty therapy, the head of this department. From 1964 to 1971 Vlail was a rector of the Novosibirsk Medical Institute. Since 1969 - Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, since June 30, 1971 – Full Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, specializing in "therapy".
Vlail was the organizer of fundamental medical science in Siberia and the east of the country, the initiator of the creation and the first head of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 1970-1980). The Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, 1970-1998, was the first and main brainchild of Kaznacheyev; in different years six large institutes were formed on its basis.