Pages of life of academician V.N. Chernigovsky

For the first time, the memoirs of Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences are published by V.N. Chernihiv about his own house, where his childhood and adolescence passed, about the family, about studying at the University of Perm, about teaching and scientific work in Orenburg, Sverdlovsk and Leningrad, and about studies that were crowned with the largest discovery: the detection of high -sensitive chemoreceptors in the tissues of the internal organs, and Also baroreceptors in the vessels of these organs. For the first time, a brief autobiography is published, written for the "Dictionary of Scientists" (Italy. 1974) And sharply polemic, and therefore not seeing the light, an article about the true reasons for the lag of domestic physiology, starting already from the 50s of the XX century, a problem, the acuteness of which has only increased in our time. The appearance of V.N. Chernihiv, man and scientist, creator of a large scientific school, organizer of physiological science, complement the memories of academician O.G. Gazenko and students - professors