Contribution of professor Nikolai Kolosov to the development of neurohistology (to the 125th birth anniversary)

The article is devoted to the research, pedagogical and social activities of one of the prominent Russian histologists of our country of the twentieth century, Professor N.G. Kolosov, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, who made a significant contribution to the development of national neuromorphology. From 1945 to 1950, Professor N.G. Kolosov headed the Department of Histology and Embryology of the Saratov State Medical Institute. In a relatively short period of his activity at the Saratov Medical Institute, he managed to lay the foundations of the neuromorphological direction of the Department of Histology, establish a close relationship with the staff of clinics and involve them in research activities.