SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE OF PROFESSOR B. P. KHVATOV IN EMBRYOLOGY
The article tells about the prominent Russian scientist Professor Boris Pavlovich Khvatov - the founder of the Crimean scientific embryological school, the pioneer of in vitro fertilization carried out under his leadership in the 60s of the last century. He described the earliest stages of human embryonic development in situ, beginning with fertilization and over the next six days of embryogenesis, included in the world collection of human embryos at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, which are presented in this article in chronological order of fetal development.