Anichkov S. V., (1892 - 1981), pharmacologist

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ANICHKOV Sergey Viktorovich (1892, St. Petersburg - 1981, Leningrad), pharmacologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1950), Hero of Socialist Labour, honoured director of Charles University (1963) and Helsinki University (1967), the honoured President of the International Council of Pharmacologists (1966). He attended the Military Medical Academy, Kazan University and Yuryev University, and in 1918 graduated from the Petrograd Medical Institute. He became a head of the Chair of Pharmacology of the Military Medical Academy (1924-37, where there is a memorial plaque). In 1937-44 he was imprisoned on fabricated charges. In 1948-81, Anichkov headed the Department of Pharmacology of the Institute of Experimental Medicine (here also there is a memorial plaque). He wrote books on the pharmacology of the nervous system and the cardiovascular system. Anichkov created a number of medications, such as Dibazol and Etimizol. He was awarded the Stalin Prize (1951) and the Lenin Prize (1976). From 1950 he lived in the House for Specialists of Military and Experimental Medicine (71 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue). Anichkov was buried in the Bogoslovskoe Cemetery.

Works: На рубеже двух эпох. Л., 1981.
References: Голиков С. Н. С. В. Аничков (1892-1981). М., 1992.

T. I. Grekova. Anichkov Sergey Viktorovich
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 71
Голиков С. Н. С. В. Аничков (1892-1981). М., 1992 Army Medical Academy
Institute of Experimental Medicine
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery