About the pathologist-morphometrist Georgy Gerasimovich Avtandilov

Abstract

The article shows the life and creative path of Georgy Gerasimovich Avtandilov, the outstanding domestic pathologist-morphometrist, who for the first time created the Soviet school of quantitative pathological anatomy. A Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Honored Doctor of Kabardino-Balkaria, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR and the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Avtandilov was born in the town of Kizlyar. After graduating from high school, he entered the Novocherkassk Industrial Institute, but in his second year of studies he was called up to serve in the Workers-Peasant Red Army in the town on the Bialystok ledge of the border, where in 1941 he was captured and held in the Lamsdorf concentration camp almost until the end of the war, having gone through a living hell. After the end of the war and the end of the North Ossetian Medical Institute, the fate of G. G. Avtandilov developed in such a way that the choice was made for life in favor of pathological anatomy.