Garshin V.G. (1887-1956), pathologist

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GARSHIN Vladimir Georgievich (1887-1956, Leningrad), pathologist, Member of the Academy of the Medical Sciences of the USSR (1945). He graduated from Kiev University in 1913, working in Leningrad from 1923. He was a dissector at a number of hospitals. He worked simultaneously at the State Radiological, Roentgenological and Cancer Institute in 1928-41, Institute of Experimental Medicine, and at the First Leningrad Medical Institute from 1933 where he was promoted to a professor in 1934. He was the chief pathologist of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. He wrote reminiscences of the siege. Buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

Works: Where the Death Saves the Life published in From the History of Medicine, issue 3, pages 225-238, in Riga in 1960.

Reference: Журавлева Т. Б. В. Г. Гаршин. СПб., 1994.

T. I. Grekova. Garshin Vladimir Georgievich
В. Г. Гаршин. СПб., 1994
Там, где смерть помогает жизни // Из истории медицины: Сб. ст. Рига, 1960 Institute of Experimental Medicine
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery