Talent of a scientist, teacher and leader (on the 95th anniversary of the birth of academician Mikhail Timofeevich Lutsenko)

This year marks the 95 th anniversary of the birth of the initiator, organiser and first director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Respiration of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR – now the Far Eastern Scientific Centre for Physiology and Pathology of Respiration – Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Timofeevich Lutsenko. The article is a biographical essay that outlines the key stages of his professional growth and highlights his outstanding achievements in managing medical science and training scientific personnel. It also presents the most significant results of his work in morphology, histology and pathological physiology.