Background
FIALKOV, Yakov was born on November 20, 1895 in Kiev. Son of an office worker
FIALKOV, Yakov was born on November 20, 1895 in Kiev. Son of an office worker
From 1912 pharmacist's apprentice in Kiev. 1915 passed pharmacy examin at Kiev University. 1925 graduate Kiev Polytech Institute.
Until 1920 worked at various pharmacies in Kiev. From 1925 lecturer in pharmaceutical chemistry, Kiev Pharmaceutical Institute. 1929-1941 also lecturer in inorganic chemistry, Kiev Polytech Institute.
1936 obtained diploma of Candidate of Chemistry and wrote manual on the analysis of pharmaceutical preparations. 1937 completed postgraduate studies. 1938-1944 head, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Kiev Polytech Institute.
And Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. 1939-1954 head, Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Kiev Pharmaceutical Institute. From 1944 until death professor, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, Kiev University.
From 1945 head, Laboratory of Complex Compounds, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. 1954-1958 taught pharmaceutical chemistry at Kiev Institute of Postgraduate Pharmacy Training. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Pharmacopocial Committee.
Board member, AllUnion and All-Ukraine Pharmaceutic Social. Editor, Entsiklopedicheskiy slovar aptechnogo rabotnika (The Pharmacy Worker’s Encyclopedic Dictionary). Company-ed, 8th and 9th ed, Gosudarstvennaya farmakopeya (State Pharmacopoeia).
1927 founded first Ukraine pharmacy research and control laboratory at Kiev Pharmacy Board. 1944-1954 founder and consultant, Centr Research Laboratory, Main Pharmacy Board, Ukraine Minister of Health. 1944 also founded Kie Institute of Postgraduate Pharmacy Training.
1936-1941 ed, practical sci section, Ukrainskiy farmatsevticheskiy zhurnal devised varios new methods of analyzing medicines and other pharmaceutical preparations. Wrote over 220 works, mainly on such complex compounds as interhalogen compounds, aluminum halogenidcs, phosphoric halogenides, antimonic halogenidcs, compounds ol iodine with organic substances, various rare and non-ferrous metals, nitrogen fertilizers, medicinal plants, et cetera
Religious faith contradicts people’s efforts to obtain the truth about nature and a human being.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1945.