A. I. Strukov--Hero of Socialist Labour, Lenin prize winner, Honoured Scientist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences has been involved in a pathological anatomy for 60 years. He started studying this discipline when a student, and his first teacher was Professor V. A. Afanasyev. After a short period of work as an assistant of a Chair of Pathological Anatomy in Voronezh A. I. Strukov became a chief of a department of pathology in N. A. Semashko City Hospital in Tula. Simultaneously he attended, by correspondence, a postgraduate course in a Chair of Pathological Anatomy headed by Prof. A. I. Abrikosov at the First Moscow University. Later A. I. Strukov moved to Moscow where he started working in a laboratory of pathology of the Central Institute of Tuberculosis of the USSR Ministry of Health, headed by Prof. V. G. Stefko. He inherited from his chiefs the interest to the problem of tuberculosis and, for many years, he has been studying, together with his students, the details of morpho- and pathogenesis and pathomorphosis of this disease. The results of these studies were published in a number of monographs and journals and were included into candidate and doctor theses. A. I. Strukov developed a clinico-morphological classification of tuberculosis recognised by pathologists and clinicians of the USSR. Since 1933 A. I. Strukov worked as an assistant of A. I. Abrikosov's chair and was elected a chief of the Pathological Anatomy Chair of the First Kharkov Medical Institute. He spent the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) in Orenburg where the Kharkov Medical Institute was evacuated. Here on the basis of local civil and military hospitals, teaching, clinical and scientific work of the institute chairs, including that of pathological anatomy, was developed. A. I. Strukov returned to Moscow in 1944, worked in Prof. V. G. Shtefko's laboratory, then was elected a Professor of a Chair of Pathological Anatomy in the First Moscow Medical Institute. In 1953, after A. I. Abrikosov has retired, A. I. Strukov became the chief of this most prominent chair of pathological anatomy in the country. Continuing the traditions of A. I. Abrikosov's school, A. I. Strukov investigates with his students various problems of pathology (tuberculosis, rheumatic diseases), develops a concept of systemic and progressing disorganisation of connective tissue in rheumatic diseases, continues studying the pathology of broncho-pulmonary lesions, cardio-vascular diseases.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
