IN MEMORIAM OF VALENTIN PETROVICH SHCHERBINA

The 85th anniversary of Valentin Petrovich Shcherbina was on the 17th of July 2017. He started scientific investigations as a student of the Faculty of training Medics for the Land and Missile Forces. After his admission to the Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Valentin Petrovich was busy with teaching activity. In 1972 after the defense of the thesis he became assistant professor. Since 1976, being the head of the department, he reconstructed Department’ Museum. He organized scientific expeditions to South Caucasus and Middle Asia. Department’ employees traveled to the region of the Baikal-Amur Railway for studying vectors and parasites. Valentin Petrovich was the first military-medical parasitologist who visited areas of military units’ deployment. For many years V. P. Shcherbina was a permanent chairman of Parasitologe Society of Leningrad. He is an author of several hundred textbooks, articles and methodical guides, the supervisor of many candidate and doctoral dissertations.

V. P. Shcherbina, the Department of Biology of Military Medical Academy