Alexey Ivanovich
Abrikosov
1875-1955
Alexey Ivanovich Abrikosov was a Soviet pathologist, director of the Institute of Normal and Pathological Morphology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Professor of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, full member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. He was a Hero of Social Labour. He was born in Moscow. He was a representative of a family of large Russian entrepreneurs. His grandfather and full namesake Abrikosov Alexey Ivanovich was a major Russian entrepreneur, the founder of the confectionery factory “Partnership of A.I. Abrikosov and Sons” (now the Babaevsky concern). In 1899 graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. Since 1899, he has been a practicing physician in Moscow, studied at clinics in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. Since 1900 – resident of the Moscow Old Catherine Hospital. Since 1902 he worked at Moscow University under the supervision of M.N. Nikiforov, assistant to the dissector of the Department of Pathological Anatomy. In 1904 he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1904-1918, he was a private associate professor at Moscow University. At the same time, in 1904-1911, he was a dissector at the Morozov Children’s Hospital in Moscow and in 1904-1916, a teacher at the Moscow Dental School. After the October Revolution, he continued to work at the university: in 1918-1920 he was a Head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the 2nd Moscow State University, in 1920-1953 – Professor of the Medical Faculty of Moscow University (since 1930 – 1st Moscow Medical Institute), head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy of this University and in 1924-1930 he was a Dean of the Medical Faculty of this university university. At the same time, in 1911-1934, he was a prosector at the Botkin Hospital in Moscow, in 1934-1937, a professor at the Institute of Advanced Medical Training, in 1944-1951 was a Director of the Institute of Normal and Pathological Morphology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Organizer and since 1938 Honorary Chairman of the Moscow Society of Pathologists. Alexey Ivanovich Abrikosov has published over 100 scientific papers devoted mainly to pulmonary tuberculosis, pathological anatomy of sympathetic nerve nodes, muscle tumors, morphology of allergies, sepsis problems. Author of a number of textbooks. He is widely known for doing the first embalming of V.I. Lenin’s body and drawing up a conclusion about Lenin’s death. He published works on the pathological anatomy of tuberculosis (1904-1923), gave a description of the morphology of the initial manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis (“Abrikosov’s focus”). In 1925-1926 A.I. Abrikosov described and studied a tumor of muscle tissue – myoblastomyoma, which was called “Abrikosov’s tumor”. In 1933, he determined the morphological manifestations of allergic tissue reactions. In 1942, he described the main stages of the wound process, studied the pathology of trauma and changes in lung tissue in gunshot wounds. During 33 years of work at the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute, under the leadership of Academician Alexey Ivanovich Abrikosov, about 500 scientific studies were carried out.
Address: Moscow, Abrikosovsky lane, 1, p. 1
