Pages of biography and scientific heritage of the outstanding professor-pathologist Sergei Martynovich Derizhanov (1898–1945)

Abstract

The article presents the facts of biography of the famous pathologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Sergei M. Derizhanov. S.M. Derizhanov is a graduate of the medical faculty of Don University, head of the departments of pathological anatomy of Smolensk (1931–1941) and Ivanovo (1942–1945) medical institutes. Sergei M. Derizhanov is the dean of the medical faculty of the Smolensk State Medical Institute, the author of the first monographs in the Soviet Union on morphology of primary lung cancer (1932), intestinal anthrax (1935), and osteomyelitis (1940). From the first years of medical practice with S.M. Derizhanov showed a thirst for research work, a passionate desire to learn new things, and a talent for research. He was an extraordinary, kind, intelligent, very emotional and hot-tempered person, who knew how to notice the unusual in the most ordinary situations, and had a great capacity for work. Professor-pathologist S.M. Derizhanov actively involved students and young doctors in scientific work and was fluent in the German language. Sergei M. Derizhanov is an outstanding scientist who selflessly served science and devoted his entire short life to pathological anatomy. He trained 2 doctors and 8 candidates of science, who later became famous figures in the medical science. The youngest daughter of Sergei M. Derizhanov, Irina S. Derizhanova, also became a pathologist, defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences and headed the Department of Pathological Anatomy at Rostov State Medical University (1990–2021). Representatives of the Derizhanov medical dynasty made outstanding contributions to the Russian medicine.