VASILTSOV MIKHAIL KONSTANTINOVICH (FOR THE 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH)

The article provides information about the life and scientific activities of Mikhail Konstantinovich Vasiltsov, MD, Professor, Head of the Department of Histology, Embryology, Cytology (1974-1996) of the Irkutsk State Medical Institute. During 22 years of leadership of the Department of Histology, Embryology, Cytology of IGMI, Mikhail Konstantinovich has educated dozens of highly professional scientific and pedagogical staff. His contribution to the development of microscopic technology is significant. He improved and introduced the method of manufacturing tooth grinds, developed a method for semi-quantitative determination of collagen content using micro-preparations, which was approved by the scientific community and subsequently widely introduced into histological practice. А cytophotometer was designed and manually assembled under his leadership. It made possible to determine the content of substances in cells of various organs and tissues with high accuracy. For many years, Professor Vasiltsov M. K. was a member of the Dissertation Council on Histology, Cytology, and embryology. For two decades, Mikhail Konstantinovich was the permanent head of the Bureau of Rationalization and Invention of the Medical Institute. M. K. Vasiltsov headed the Irkutsk branch of the Russian Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists for many years. Mikhail Konstantinovich remembered as a prominent morphologist, professor, teacher, lecturer, methodologist of the highest class, a man of high moral human principles. Vasiltsov is the author of more than 100 scientific and methodological works, many of which are fundamental in nature. Three doctoral and six PhD dissertations were completed and defended under his leadership, three copyright certificates for inventions obtained. Numerous diplomas from the Irkutsk State Medical Institute and the Ministry of Health of Russia worthily marked the long-term fruitful work of Professor M. K. Vasiltsov. M. K. Vasiltsov awarded medals, honorary titles: "Excellent Health Worker" and "Veteran of Labor".