From cadet to professor: service of physiology (to the 80th anniversary of V.N. Golubev)

This paper describes the main milestones of the work and scientific and pedagogical activities of Professor Viktor Nikolaevich Golubev. V.N. Golubev was born on September 22, 1942, in the town of Sharya, Kostroma Region, in the family of a military paramedic. In 1961, after graduating from the Tambov Suvorov Military School, he entered the faculty of training doctors for the missile and ground forces of the Military Medical Academy of S.M. Kirov. According to the suggestion of an academic worker, he held the position of senior doctor of the engineer-sapper regiment in the city of Ussuriysk. Since 1970, his fate has been inextricably linked with the Department of Normal Physiology of the Academy, within the walls of which he has gone from adjunct to Professor and head of the department. It is here that V.N. Golubev joined the ideas of the great physiological school of Sechenov-Pavlov, starting his scientific activity under the guidance of Professor A.S. Mozzhukhin. His studies were devoted to the physiology of military labor and aimed at maintaining the stable professional performance of servicemen. Since 1988, V.N. Golubev headed the Department of Biomedical Disciplines of the Military Institute of Physical Culture, where he introduced modern achievements of sports medicine and physical rehabilitation into the educational process. At the Military Institute of Physical Culture, his research interests focused on the physiological mechanisms of motor activity, i.e., the physiology of sports. In 1992, V.N. Golubev successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, which solved the problem of controlling motor activity in extreme conditions. He was awarded the title of Professor in 1993. Since 2001, V.N. Golubev’s scientific and pedagogical activities have again connected with the Department of Normal Physiology of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, which he headed from 2018 to 2021. Viktor Nikolaevich actively participated in the development of standards of professional employment of the teaching staff of the academy, and he was one of the founders of military psychophysiology in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. V.N. Golubev authored of more than 450 scientific papers, including 5 textbooks, 8 monographs, and 56 educational and teaching aids. For nearly half a century of service in the Armed Forces, V.N. Golubev has come a long way from a Suvorov soldier, a colonel of the medical service and to a Professor. In all the positions he held, he proved himself to be a principled person, actively related to life, and a highly professional specialist in his field.