SHCHASTNY SERGEY MIKHAILOVICH

Professor Shchastny Sergei Mikhailovich (1875 - 1943), one of the famous scientists of tsarist Russia and the USSR, devoted his professional activities to solving scientific problems of epidemiology and microbiology of various infectious agents, organizing anti-epidemic measures, and carrying out preventive vaccinations. The talent of the outstanding scientist Shchastny S.M. combined with excellent organizational skills. With his participation and leader- ship, the Odessa bacteriological station was developed, which was known all over the world and under his leadership was reorganized into the Odessa Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after I. I.I. Mechnikov (now the II Mechnikov Ukrainian Research Anti-Plague Institute). Professor Shchastny S.M. several departments of microbiol- ogy were created in medical institutes - at the Odessa Medical Institute (now the University) and the Crimean Medical Institute (now the Vernadsky Crimean Federal University). The Department of Microbiology was first created at the institute in 1931, together with 10 other departments of the university. A talented scientist and teacher not only created the department, but also conditions for the training of students. To study the subject, Professor Shchastny S.M. wrote the textbook «Medical Microbiology», one of the first under Soviet rule, which was reprinted several times. Scientific research of Professor S.M. Shchastny reflected about 50 printed scientific works. The life of the scientist was quite dif- ficult. Soon after graduating from the institute he moved to Odessa, where he worked with prominent medical scientists of that period; during the First World War, he served in the army, where he organized anti-epidemic measures; then he returned to Odessa, where he headed the Odessa bacteriological station, which he reorganized into the Odessa Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. I.I. Mechnikov; then from 1928 he worked in Crimea at the Crimean Insti- tute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (Sevastopol) and the Crimean Medical Institute (Simferopol); in 1938 he was not deservedly convicted, and then sent to Kazakhstan, where he realized his scientific and organizational potential in practical medicine until the last days of his life.