PROFESSOR OF THE DEPARTMENT: HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY IN THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR SUTIN ILYA ARONOVICH
Sutin Ilya Aronovich was born in Minsk on September 19, 1897. At first he received his primary education, then graduated from a real school, after which he entered the medical faculty of Moscow State University. From 1922 to 1931 worked as an assistant at the Department of Microbiology of the Medical Faculty of the Belarusian University. By the organs of the GPU, in an administrative order in March 1932, he was expelled from Belarus to Kazakhstan. In Alma-Ata, he was accepted as an assistant at the Department of Microbiology of the Kazakh State Medical Institute since April 15, 1932, became the head of the department in August 1932, and was approved in the rank of associate professor in February 1934, acting professor of the Department of Microbiology. - in November 1934, defended his doctoral dissertation «On the biology of museum paratyphoid strains of the USSR» on June 1, 1935, the degree of Doctor of Medicine was awarded in November 1935, and in July 1936 - the title of professor. At the same time, during this period of time, he worked part-time at the Regional Sanitary and Bacteriological Institute as the head of the department (from 1932 to 1935), deputy director (from 1935 to 1936), and also headed the department of microbiology of the Kazakh Zooveterinary Institute (from October 1933 to 1936 biennium). In 1937 I.A. transferred to the Stalingrad Medical Institute (now Volgograd State Medical University), where he headed the Department of Microbiology from 1937 to 1942. and from 1945 to 1952, and then worked as a professor. During the Great Patriotic War, the Crimean Medical Institute was evacuated from Simferopol to Kyzyl-Orda. The head of the Department of Microbiology of the Crimean Medical Institute was appointed Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Sutin I.A., where he worked from 10.10.1942 to 1944. Professor Sutin I.A. made a lot of efforts to organize the educational process on the subject of microbiology in an unusual teaching environment - in evacuation. Working at the departments of microbiology in the cities of Minsk, Alma-Ata, Stalingrad, Kyzyl-Orda, Professor Sutin I.A. devoted to scientific research. Many scientific works devoted to the problems of microbiology, including bacteriophagy, have been carried out under his supervision. As a result of the research, the monograph «Bacteriophage and its Application in Medicine» was published. Several Ph.D. theses have been completed under his supervision. Professor Sutin I.A. paid attention to increasing the level of training of practical doctors, by publishing methodological literature and giving lectures for doctors. The team of authors headed by Professor I.A. in 1951 he prepared a workshop «Medical Microbiology» for medical schools in microbiology, which went through 6 editions and translated into 6 languages. During the years of work at the Stalingrad Medical Institute, he was actively involved in social work. For his great work and merits he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Stalingrad Regional Executive Committee, Orders of the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR for the 60th and 70th anniversary, the badge «Excellence in Public Health» and the Order of the Badge of Honor. Died Sutin I.A. in 1979 in Volgograd.