Melnykov-Razvedenkov, Mykola

Melnykov-Razvedenkov, Mykola [Мельников-Разведенков, Микола; Mel'nykov], b 24 December 1866 in Ust-Medveditskaia, Oblast of the Don Cossack Host, d 20 December 1937 in Kharkiv. Pathological anatomist; full member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1927. A graduate of Moscow University (1889), he served as a professor at Kharkiv University (1902–20) and Kuban University (1920–2) and the Kuban Medical Institute (1922–5). He was director of the Ukrainian Institute of Pathology and Anatomy (1925–30) and a department head at the Ukrainian Institute of Experimental Medicine (from 1930) in Kharkiv. His publications deal with anthrax, echinococcosis, periarteritis, the morphology of allergic processes, neuropathology, and the history of pathological anatomy. He proposed a method of fixing anatomical specimens (1896).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]