Professor Georgii Silvestrovich Katinas (1925–2014) (on the 100th anniversary of his birth)

Abstract

October 6, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor Georgii Silvestrovich Katinas, the great scientist and teacher, whose name is inextricably linked with the Pavlov University and directly with the activities of the Department of Histology, Embryology and Cytology. The authors have summarized the facts of the scientist’s biography and the main stages of his scientific and pedagogical activity. Georgii S. Katinas, the participant in the Great Patriotic War, graduated from the First Leningrad Medical Institute in 1951 and headed the Department of Histology, Embryology and Cytology of the same Institute from 1972 to 1992. During his tenure, new methods of teaching histology as an academic discipline were developed, including the use of electronic computers. The main scientific activity of Georgii S. Katinas was related to issues of chronobiology and the study of the biological rhythms of the functioning of organs and systems. G. S. Katinas was a member of the Problem Commission «Morphogenesis of cells, tissues and the organism», the council on morphology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, was deputy editor of the journal «Archive of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology», a member of the presidium of the USSR Scientific Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists, a member of the Problem Commission «Chronobiology and Chronomedicine» of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Under his supervision, 19 doctoral theses were defended and about 300 scientific papers were published. The life and creative path of Georgii S. Katinas has for many years served as an example for the younger generations of physicians, scientists, and teachers.