PROSECTOR A. A. VASILIEV - HIS LIFE AND DOOM
Historical and biographical essay is dedicated to the life and creative path of the Patriarch of the Russian military pathoanatomical service who died heroically during the Great Patriotic War - the first chief pathologist of the Red Army, Brigadier doctor, Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (1901-1943) who left an unforgettable trail in the history of the Russian pathoanatomical service. The main merit of A. A. Vasiliev is that he put forward the idea of creating a special organizational form of pathoanatomical activity which with his suggestion received the designation «pathoanatomical service». Moreover, the idea of creating army and front-line pathoanatomical laboratories as well as a central pathoanatomical laboratory belongs to him. On the eve of the war he introduced the «Instructions for the autopsies of the dead in the front-line area» - the first document regulating the activities of pathologists in wartime. A. A. Vasiliev proposed the structure of pathoanatomical and forensic medical examination in the active Red Army. This and much more is described in the presented work