[Professor Boris Petrovich Ugryumov is a prominent military pathologist].

Abstract

The biographical article is dedicated to the memory of Boris Petrovich Ugryumov, a graduate of the Imperial Military Medical Academy (1914), a prominent military pathologist, the First Head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Ryazan Medical Institute. The paper presents the major milestones in the life of B.P. Ugryumov; his service on the fronts of the First and Second World Wars and his teaching activity at the Military Medical Academy and the Naval Medical Academy occupy an important place. For about 10 years, he was in charge of the Pathology Department, S.P. Botkin Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital in Leningrad, which largely determined the area of his professional interests, such as the pathomorphology of infectious diseases, tuberculosis in particular. The archiving and personal photographic documents that have been previously unknown to the public are published for the first time.