TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF AVENIR MIKHAILOVICH YAKOVLEV

Abstract

The article is dedicated to Professor Avenir Mikhailovich Yakovlev (1923–1994), Doctor of Medical Sciences, who headed the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology of the Leningrad Paediatric Medical Institute (LPMI) for 15 years (1974–1989). He had to overcome many difficulties and shocks to become a prominent scientist and teacher, colonel of medical service, educator of several generations of civilian and military doctors. The loss of his priest father in childhood during political repressions, injury at the beginning of the war during the evacuation of the Military Medical Academy (MMA) from Leningrad, studies at a military paramedical school, participation on various fronts in Red Army combat operations, studies at the MMA, service in the Transbaikal Military District, adjuncture and subsequent scientific and pedagogical work at the MMA — these are the main milestones of his biography until he joined the LPMI in 1974. The article evaluates the main scientific and pedagogical achievements of A.M. Yakovlev in different periods of his activity and his contribution to the training of paediatricians.