Professor Zelig Nisonovich Blumstein

Honored Scientist of TASSR, Professor Zelig Nisonovich Blumstein passed away...
Z. N. Blumstein was born in 1894 in Sarapul of the former Vyatka province (now Udmurtian ASSR) in the petty bourgeois family. In 1911 he graduated from the Sarapul Real School and in the same year passed the examinations for the certificate of maturity in the 2nd Kazan Gymnasium. After graduation from the Real School he worked on the construction of the railroad as a draftsman, and then as an apprentice in a pharmacy. In 1913, he entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of Kazan University, where he studied three courses. In 1915, he transferred to the medical faculty of the same university, from which he graduated in 1924. While studying at the university, he earned his living by serving at different positions on the Kazan railroad.