INITIAL PERIOD OF THE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY OF THE MICROBIOLOGIST AND EPIDEMIOLOGIST VLADIMIR A. BARYKIN: TO THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH

In the year of the 150th anniversary of the famous Russian scientist Vladimir A. Barykin (1874-1939), an attempt is made to reconstruct the initial period of his scientific activity. Based on the documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation and published sources, the pre-revolutionary stage in the life and work of V.A. Barykin is considered. The professional path of the scientist, his first scientific research, as well as participation in the Russian-Japanese and World War I are recreated. And although the flourishing of his scientific and organizational activities took place in the 1920s and 1930s, the pre-revolutionary period of his life was extremely busy with expeditions and research, becoming significant for the formation of a professional scientist and the definition of those research areas that he would develop later. The fruitful scientific activity of the scientist was interrupted in 1938, when he was arrested, and in 1939 he was shot during the repressions. Despite the rehabilitation of V.A. Barykin in 1955, no detailed publications about his life and scientific activity have appeared. This article attempts to fill in this research gap and honor the memory of the prominent Russian scientist in his jubilee year.