В ГОД ПАМЯТИ СТАНИСЛАВА ИОСОФАТОВИЧА ЗАЛЕСКОГО – ОРДИНАРНОГО ПРОФЕССОРА, ВРАЧА-УЧЁНОГО, РОССИЙСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ДЕЯТЕЛЯ

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Abstract. Introduction. In the year of the 165th anniversary of Ordinary Professor Stanislav I. Zalesky, collecting and structuring the materials about his scientific discoveries and his public and social reforms allow us to thankfully and highly appreciate his contribution to the development of Siberia and the Russian state as whole. Aim of the study is to estimate S. I. Zalesky’s importance for the progress of the medicine, chemistry, balneology, hydrology, and public life of the state and for the development of new approaches in teaching chemistry. Materials and Methods. In preparing this paper, we used the theoretical text analysis of lectures, speeches, dissertations, historical articles, and publications in the album of biographies. We present the analysis of the professor’s activities within the period of 1850-1890s. Results and Discussion. Working with Professor S. I. Zalesky’s research materials allows us to evaluate his contribution to various areas of science. Having got medical background and achieved considerable successes in studying anatomy, he worked his scientific way from a physician through a chemical scientist and made a great progress in this area. His interdisciplinary activities allowed Zalesky to be first to isolate ferritin, to discover the linkage between the spread of cholera and the water supply to populated areas, and to make much more important conclusions. Организовывал научные экспедиции совместно со студентами, в ходе которых был проведен химико-геологический и клима- тический анализ местных озер. Being a scientist eternally committed to his native Polish land, he established the fundamentals of studying and teaching chemistry in Siberia, having proposed the principle of profiling. He defined the importance of physiological, pathological, pharmaceutical, and geological chemistry. He studied micro- and macro- chemical reactions to iron in biological media, contributed to opening forensic institutions in Tomsk, initiated the studies of physiography of Siberia in terms of balneology, hydrology, and chemistry. Together with his students, he arranged research expeditions where they performed the chemical, geological, and climatic analyses of local lakes. Conclusions. Based on the theoretical analysis and structurization of materials available, we could evaluate the special contributions made by Professor S. I. Zalesky to the development of various areas of science.