In memory of professor V. I. Katerov (1891 - 1960)

The Kazan therapeutic school lost one of its oldest representatives: on June 2, 1960, the doctor of medical sciences, the head of the hospital therapeutic clinic No. 2 of the Kazan Medical Institute, Professor Vasily Ivanovich Katerov died. Since graduating from the medical faculty of Kazan University in 1914, with the exception of short periods of military service (civil war), his entire creative life is associated with the hospital therapeutic clinic of Kazan University (since 1930 - Kazan Medical Institute). Having received excellent clinical training under the guidance of prof. V. F. Orlovsky, with whom he was approved as a staff resident in 1915 and already in 1916 began to act as an assistant, and subsequently worked under the guidance of prof. N. K. Goryaev, V. I. Katerov consistently passed all stages of clinical training, occupying in 1932 an associate professor in the department of hospital therapy, and in 1934 - the department of hospital therapy No. 2.