Professor Emil Moiseevich Zalkind – the 125th anniversary of his birth

The article is devoted to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Zalkind Emil Moiseevich – Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Head of the Psychiatric Clinic of Perm Medical Institute. In 1922, he graduated from the Medical Faculty of Don University and began to work as a resident of the Neuropsychiatric Clinic of the North Caucasian Medical Institute in Rostov-on-Don, where he served until 1932. Emil Moiseevich is the author of more than 100 scientific papers devoted to the problem of mental disorders in encephalopathies. Professor Zalkind was an initiator of the creation of the Ural Research Psychoneurological Institute. He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. In addition to medicine, Emil Moiseevich was fond of music; he graduated from Saratov Philharmonic (a piano class, the composer Glier) and received higher musical education. For his great achievements in medicine, E.M. Zalkind was awarded the title of the Honored Scientist of the RSFSR.