Professor Nikolay Shlyapnikov merits in medical institutes of the Volga region pathology development

The purpose of this article on the history of the development of Russian morphology (pathological anatomy) is to consider and analyze the main stages of the life path, scientific and pedagogical and administrative and social activity of Professor Nikolay Shlyapnikov. When writing, the historical and biographical method, analysis of the main stages of his life, professional and social activities and merits were used. The authors used information contained in papers on the history of medicine of the Middle Volga region. An important role in the preparation of materials was played by archival materials of the funds of the Central State Archive of the Samara Region and the archive of the department of the Samara State Medical University. The article presents his biography as a scientist and organizer of health care, dedicated to the 125th anniversary of his birth. The historical material highlights his life path, years of study at a real school, military service in the Red Army, study at the Saratov State University, work at the Saratov State Medical Institute as an assistant, Associate Professor and then Head of the Department of Pathology. The work during the Great Patriotic War is shown, his main scientific works are noted. The next period of Professor Nikolay Shlyapnikov activity after Saratov's period was the heading of the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the Kuibyshev State Medical Institute. Through his efforts, the City and regional pathological anatomical service were created, as well as the regional society of pathologists together with the Head of the Department of Pathological Physiology, Professor Suponitskaya. For ten years from 1952 to 1963, Professor Shlyapnikov was the Deputy Director of the Kuybyshev State Medical Institute for scientific activity. Under the supervision of Professor Shlyapnikov, morphological changes in various organs in gas infection, liver changes in wound osteomyelitis, the morphology of cancer and cancer metastases were studied, and research was conducted on organ changes in various diseases. In general, the article presents materials that reveal little-known information to the general public about the development of pathological anatomy in medical institutes of the Volga region.