Syrotynin, Mykola

Syrotynin, Mykola or Syrotinin, Nikolai [Сиротинін, Микола], b 26 November 1896 in Saratov, Russia, d 4 April 1977 in Kyiv. Pathophysiologist; corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR from 1939 and full member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences from 1957. A graduate of Saratov University (1924), he worked in Kyiv from 1934. He headed a department in the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Health Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology (1934–53), the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1946–53), the Institute of Infectious Diseases of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1950–6), the Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (from 1956), and the Kyiv Medical Institute (1955–61). He wrote works on immunology, hypoxia, comparative pathology, and medical history and methodology.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]