A lesser-known biography of Professor Yu.D. Zilber (1926–2003)

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This essay, bearing a documentary and biographical nature, is the result of a documented and scientific understanding of the scientific and pedagogical activities of Professor Yuri Davidovich Zilber, Doctor of Medical Sciences. The stylistic and linguistic structure of the essay fully corresponds to the authors’ goal: to create a concise and laconic picture of the labor, scientific, and pedagogical activities of Professor Yu.D. Zilber. We faced the challenge of gathering disparate documentary information and materials, as well as the recollections of relatives and colleagues, which helped to reveal the character and contribution of Yuri Davidovich to medical and biological sciences as a significant scientist and educator. In our opinion, we succeeded in researching and describing the key stages in the formation of Yu.D. Zilber as a physician and scientist: the years of study, the difficult trials during the Great Patriotic War, and his fruitful scientific and pedagogical activities. We utilized surviving archival documents and scientific publications from the St. Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University, the Military Medical Museum, and the Zilber family archive. The authors hope that the results of this research will be of interest to students and teachers of our university studying the history of medicine and pharmacy, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in the fates of significant and outstanding scientists.

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Vladimir V. Perelygin

Saint Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: vladimir.pereligin@pharminnotech.com

Dr. Med. Sci., Professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Head of the Industrial Ecology Department

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Igor A. Narkevich

Saint Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University

Email: igor.narkevich@pharminnotech.com

D.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor, Rector

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Elena V. Flisyuk

Saint Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University

Email: elena.flisyuk@pharminnotech.com

D.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department technology of dosage forms, Vice-rector

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Mikhail V. Zharikov

Saint Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University

Email: zharikov.mihail@pharminnotech.com

Senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Industrial Ecology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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  11. Pod znakom stoletiya: [sbornik dokumentov po istorii SPKhFU] / Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi khimiko-farmatsevticheskii universitet; [avtor-sostavitel’: doktor filosofskikh nauk, dotsent S.A. Vorob’eva; otvetstvennyi redaktor: doktor farmatsevticheskikh nauk, professor I.A. Narkevich]. – Sankt-Petersburg: PMB, 2019. S. 410. (In Russ).

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3. Fig. 1. Photos from the album «Naval Medical Academy. The tenth issue of doctors, with a donation signature of the VMM of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR from a graduate of the Doctor of medical Sciences, Lieutenant Colonel m/s Zilber Yu.D.»

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4. Fig. 2. Captain Yu.D. Zilber – service in the city of Polyarny in 1953

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5. Fig. 3. Lieutenant Colonel Yu.D. Zilber – service in the city of Rostov in 1957

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6. Fig. 4. Abstract of the Dissertation for the Degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences by Yu.D. Zilber

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7. Fig. 5. Archival photograph from the 24th anniversary of the 1948 graduating class of the Military Medical Academy, 1972 (they gathered almost every year). From left to right: Dr.Med.Sci. Yu.D. Zilber, Dr.Med.Sci. M.V. Volokhonsky, Dr.Med.Sci. A.A. Krylov (Chief Therapist of St. Petersburg from 1987 to 2002), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences A.M. Ugolev

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8. Fig. 6. Yu.D. Zilber with his wife and Prince Georgy Vasilievich Sidamon-Eristavi (Head of the International Department-Center for Maternal and Child Health Protection of the Ministry of Health) and his wife

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9. Fig. 7. Dissertation Abstract for the Doctor of Medical Sciences Degree by Yu.D. Zilber

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10. Fig. 8. Yu.D. Zilber’s application for the position of Professor at the Department of Physiology, 1994

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11. Fig. 9. Yu.D. Zilber with a group of students, September 1996

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12. Fig. 10. Y.D. Zilber pictured with a group of international students, April 1996

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13. Fig. 11. Lecture hall of the department, 2001. Professor Yu.D. Zilber, Associate Professor V.N. Kudrin

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