Pyotr Kuzmich Anokhin - my teacher

The author shares his personal memories concerning outstanding Russian physiologist, his scientific school, vividly con1 veys the atmosphere of a research in the medical and physiological community, at the Department of Normal Physiology, when P. K. Anokhin was in charge of it, The priorities and achievements of the theory of functional systems, the main pos1 tulates of which were formulated by academician P. K. Anokhin popularly sets out in the article.