Professor Ivan G. Savchenko

The last years of the last century and the first years of the current one were the heyday of Kazan University in general and its medical faculty in particular. As the easternmost of the European universities, with comparatively poor laboratories and clinics, it is on par with its much richer Western European counterparts in its scientific achievements. This is explained by the fact that most of its departments were then occupied by persons who held the banner of science high and, despite the unfavorable situation, managed to create entire schools that became breeding grounds for scientists for all of Russia at that time.