Gazenko O. G. - the founder of the cosmic biology and medicine (to the 100th anniversary of the birth)

Gazenko Oleg Georgievich - an academician, one of the founders of space biology and medicine, deputy head of the state Research and Experimental Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1963-1969), director of the Institute of Medico-Biological problems (1969-1988), president of the Russian society named after I.P. Pavlov (1983-2004), advisor to the Russian Academy of Sciences at the State Scientific center of the Russian Federation - Institute of Medico-Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1988-2007). He was immediate participant of the preparation for the flight of Yuri Gagarin. He was the author of Monographs «Animals in Space», «Life and Space», «Man in long Space flight», «Space Cardiology», «Humanity and space». He was in charge as an editor-in-chief of a number of magazines - «Successes of Physiological Sciences», «Space Biology and medicine», as well as large serial monographs - «Scientific results of researches in space missions», «Problems of space Biology». O.G. Gazenko represented Russia at the sessions of the United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Outer Space. International recognition of his merits in this field was marked by numerous awards, honorary ranks and titles. The most significant result of the creative path of academician Oleg Georgievich Gazenko was in creation of a new direction - space biology and medicine, which his students and followers still continue to develop.