Dmitry Andreevich Biryukov (1904-1969) - scientist, teacher, organizer, personality
The article is dedicated to the academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, the largest and most prominent scientist-physiologist D. A. Biryukov (1904-1969). D. A. Biryukov was born in Novocherkassk, graduated from Rostov University, his teacher - N. A. Rozhansky - one of the country’s major scientists. He was trained by I. P. Pavlov (1928). Since 1935 - Professor of the Department of Physiology of the Rostov Pedagogical Institute, and since 1939 - Head of the Department of Normal Physiology, Voronezh Medical Institute, since 1945 - its principal. The founder of a number of major scientific fields, the most important of which is the ecological physiology of humans and animals. On the basis of his work, meteorological pathology, bioclimatology, polar and space medicine, neuroimmunophysiology, and others discipline were developed. D. A. Biryukov is the founder of a large scientific school, a talented teacher who raised well-known Russian and foreign scientists. His approach to educating young scientists is based on a vote of confidence, the provision of independence and control of results at the completion of the work phase. The basic requirement is the truth of the results. Most of his students became professors, heads of departments and laboratories, six became members of the Academy of Sciences. The best director of the IEM of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR since 1950, D. A. Biryukov opened new laboratories in the most important branches of science - biochemical genetics, neurocybernetics, ecological physiology, human neurophysiology, and others and created the possibility of ensuring their work. He knew the staff members well and was a favorite principal. D. A. Biryukov - a large person in everything - outwardly, in decisions, in relations with people, he easily accepted jokes, including in his address, which always indicates the scale of the personality. He did not forgive himself major mistakes, even forced ones. D. A. Biryukov died on 8 January 1969, he was buried in Saint Petersburg at the Academic site of the Theological Cemetery (1 figure, bibliography: 9 refs).