Pavlov I.P., (1849-1936), physiologist

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PAVLOV Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936, Leningrad), physiologist, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1907), Russian Academy of Sciences (1917), Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1925). He came to St. Petersburg in 1870 to study at the University of St. Petersburg which he graduated from in 1875. In 1879, he also graduated from the Medical Surgical Academy (currently, the Military Academy of Medicine), where he headed the chair of physiology from 1884 (10 Komissara Smirnova Street; memorial plaque). From 1890, he also headed the department of physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (12 Akademika Pavlova Street; memorial plaque). In 1907 he took up the direction over the Physiological Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences (present-day I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; memorial plaque). Pavlov originated the doctrine of higher nervous activity. His research on the physiology of circulation of blood and digestive system were honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1904. He was buried at Literatorskie Mostki. Memorial plaques and monuments to the scientists were set up in the village of Pavlovo (former Koltushi, renamed so in honour of Pavlov) and in the Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1936, architect I.F. Bespalov, 1951, sculptor V.V. Linev). The name of Pavlov was given to streets in Petrogradsky District (formerly Lopukhinskaya Street, called Akademika Pavlova Street since 1934) and Krasnoselsky District. The houses, where the scientist lived from 1892 to 1918 (24/4 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street) and from 1918 (1/2 Leitenanta Shmidta Embankment), bear memorial plaques. The latter building has housed Pavlov Memorial Flat since 1949. His name was also attached to St. Petersburg State Medical University. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR instituted the Pavlov Prize in 1934 and Pavlov Memorial Golden Medal in 1949. See also I.P. Pavlov's Memorial Museums.

References: И. П. Павлов в воспоминаниях современников. Л., 1967; Гуреева Н. М., Чебышева Н. А. Летопись жизни и деятельности академика И. П. Павлова. Л., 1969. Т. 1; Самойлов В. О., Мозжухин А. С. Павлов в Петербурге - Петрограде - Ленинграде. Л., 1989.

O. N. Ansberg. Bezpalov Innokenty Fedorovich
Linev V.V.
Pavlov Ivan Petrovich
Akademika Pavlova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 12
Akademika Pavlova St./Saint Petersburg, city
Bolshaya Pushkarskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 24/4
Komissara Smirnova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Leitenanta Schmidta Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/2
И. П. Павлов в воспоминаниях современников. Л., 1967
Гуреева Н. М., Чебышева Н. А. Летопись жизни и деятельности академика И. П. Павлова. Л., 1969
Самойлов В. О., Мозжухин А. С. Павлов в Петербурге — Петрограде — Ленинграде. Л., 1989 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Army Medical Academy
Institute of Experimental Medicine
Pavlov Institute of Physiology
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis