Professor Sergey V. Grebenkov - naval doctor, scientist, teacher (on the 65th anniversary)

The main autobiographical, pedagogical and scientific segments of the life of the head of the Department of naval and radiation hygiene (1996-2006) S.M. Kirov military medical Academy, doctor of medical Sciences, Professor Sergey V. Grebenkov, who turned 65 on April 30, 2020. His work fell on one of the most difficult periods in the history of modern Russia and its Armed forces, associated with the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the change of socio-economic formation. In these difficult conditions, the most important task was to preserve the scientific potential of the Department and ensure the further development of naval and radiation hygiene. S.V. Grebenkov’s contribution to the development of hygiene consists, first of all, in the fact that in his PhD thesis (1988) he justified the list and types of promising individual means of water treatment in the field; in his doctorate (1996) - formulated the concept of human stay in a radiation- destabilized environment, developed principles and recommendations for optimizing the life of military personnel and the population in conditions of long-term stay in radioactively contaminated territories. Under his leadership, the Department developed the conceptual foundations of military ecology. He is the author (co-author) of 367 works, including three textbooks, a two-volume guide to naval and radiation hygiene (1998, 1999), 21 monographs, and a multimedia program «Ecological and hygienic bases of military health protection» (2001). After graduating from the military medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, S.V. Grebenkov served in the Northern fleet as head of the medical service of a multi-purpose nuclear submarine (Western Litsa, 1978-1985), then - at the military medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov (adjunct, 1985; teacher, senior teacher, associate Professor, 1988-1996; head of the Department). After demobilization (2006) - head of the Department of occupational medicine of the North-Western state medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, where he continues to work successfully to this day.