Background
ARISTOVSKIY, Vyacheslav was born in 1882.
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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich ARISTOVSKIY
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1908 graduate Medical Faculty, Kazan’ University.
Career
After graduate, received special training in microbiology and immunology from immunologist I.G. Savchenko. 1909-1914 worked under Savchenko at Institute of Bacteriology, Kazan’ University. 1912 defended doctor’s thesis.
During World War 1 worked in laboratory of Fort Aleksandr I, Kronstadt, where anti-tetanus serum was prepared. 1918 assistant professor and director, Institute of Bacteriology, Kazan’. 1920 organized department of microbiology at Medical Faculty, Kazan’ University.
From 1932 till death head, Department of Microbiology, Leningrad Military Medical Academy. 1921 devised method of culturing Borrelia recurrentis on artificial nutrient medium he developed. With Railroad Gel’ttser later produced culture of Treponema pallidum.
Also carried out research on pathogenesis of relapsing fever and immunity to lieutenant Formulated new theories on anaerobiosis and pathogenic anaerobes used in diagnosis and firophylaxis of gas gangrene. Proposed special device Aristovskiy’s anacrostat) for culturing anaerobes.
1925-1932 set up and directed Regional Institute of Microbiology, Tatar People's Commissariat of Health, Kazan’. Assisted Kazan’ health authorities to draft antiepidemic measures and acted as co-ed, Kazanskiy meditsinskiy zhurnal. About 200 sci works published under his supervision.
Pupils included North.N. Blagoveshchenskiy, Military Intelligence Mastbaum, Railroad Gel’ttser, Armed Forces Agafonov and North.V. Sokolov. Chairman, Social of Physicians, Kazan’ University, and later chairman, Leningrad Section, AllUnion Social of Epidemiologists, Microbiologists and Infectionists. Public/: 74 works mainly on immunology.
Coauthor, Uchebmk meditsinskoy mikrobiologii (Textbook of Medical Microbiology) (1945). Doctor’s thesis Vliyaniye reaktsii sredy na spetsificlieskiy tsitoliz (The Effect of the Reaction of a Medium on Specific Cytolysis) (1912). O kuTtivirovanii spirokhet Obermeyera (Culturing Borrelia recurrentis) (1921).
Nekotoryye nablyudeniya nad kul’twirovaniyem spirokhet Obermeyera (Some Observations on Culturing Borrelia recurrentis) (1923). O spirokhetakh spirokhetozakh (Spirochetes and Spirochetoses) (1924). K ucheniyu o spirokhetakh (The Study of Spirochetes) (1926).
Immunitet pri sifilise (Immunity to Syphilis) (1930). A' metodike kuTtivirovaniya Sp. pallidae dlya massovogo polucheniya antigennogo materiala (Methods of Culturing Treponema pallidum for Mass Production of Antigen) (1935). A' uproshcheniyu metodiki kuTtivirovaniya patogennykh anaerobov (Simplifying Methods of Culturing Pathogenic Anaerobes) (1938).
Lektsiipo infektsii i immunitetu (Lectures on Infection and Immunity) (1936). Apparat dlya vyrashcliivaniya anaerobov (An Apparatus for Culturing Anaerobes)( 1940).
Religion
Religion gets people to believe something untrue.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.
