Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»276010.25742/NRIPH.2024.02.020Научная статьяA prominent Russian parasitologist N.I.Latyshev (1886—1951)SarkisovArmen S.as.sar@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0059-2558N. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health04062024212012429042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>Based on the study of documents from the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the N.F.Gamalei Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, literary materials, the biography of N.I.Latyshev has been substantially supplemented, disparate facts of his life have been clarified and brought together, inaccuracies made in other publications have been corrected. The stages and periods of the scientist's research activity are traced. The role of Pavlovsky in his formation and development is highlighted. The importance of repeated experiments with self-infection, which occupied an important place in the comprehension of NI, is noted. The Latvian nature of infectious diseases, the search for ways to combat them. The monograph The Doctrine of cutaneous leishmaniasis is defined as the pinnacle of literary scientific creativity of N.I.Latyshev. The practical activity of the scientist is characterized by significant achievements in decisive and skillful large-scale organizational and sanitary-preventive measures, in which N.I.Latyshev often acted as a pioneer, in the fight against the spread and elimination of large endemic foci of infectious diseases.</p>malariacutaneous leishmaniasisrecurrent typhussubtropical parasitic infectionsself-infectionscientific expeditionendemiaepidemicnatural focus of infectionмаляриякожный лейшманиозвозвратный тифсубтропические паразитарные инфекциисамозаражениенаучная экспедицияэндемияэпидемияприродный очаг инфекции1.Martsinovsky Evgeny Ivanovich. In: Figures of medical science and healthcare — employees and pets of the Moscow Medical Academy named after I.M.Sechenov: Biographical Dictionary. [Deyateli meditsinskoy nauki i zdravookhraneniya — sotrudniki i pitomtsy Moskovskoy meditsinskoy akademii im. I.M.Sechenova: Biograficheskiy slovar']. Ed. by M.A.Paltsev, A.M.Stochik, S.N.Zatravkin. 1st ed. Moscow: Shico; 2008: 350—351. (In Russian)2.3.Kassirsky I.A. Problems and scientists. [Problemy i uchenye]. Moscow: Medgiz; 1949. (In Russian)4.5.Latyshev N.I. Malaria and its control. [Malyariya i bor'ba s ney]. Moscow-Petrograd: State Publishing House; 1923. (In Russian)6.7.Podboronov V.M. Outstanding parasitologist N.I.Latyshev (1886—1951). Bulletin of the N.A.Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health. [Byulleten' Natsional'nogo nauchno-issledovatel'skogo instituta obshchestvennogo zdorov'ya imeni N.A.Semashko]. 2016; 2: 309—312. (In Russian)8.9.Zasukhin D.H., Pervomaisky G.S. Pavlovsky Evgeny Nikanorovich. In: The Great Medical Encyclopedia. [Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya]. 3rd ed. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia; 1982; vol. 18: 225—226. (In Russian).10.11.Popovsky A. Laws of life. [Zakony zhizni]. Moscow: Soviet writer; 1947. (In Russian)12.13.Latyshev N. Manual for the recognition of malarial mosquitoes of the Central Asia. [Posobie k raspoznavaniyu malyariynykh komarov Sredney Azii]. Tashkent: Publishing House of the Political and Military Sanitary Administration of the Tashkent Front; 1926. (In Russian)14.15.Loban K.M.; GaidamovichS.Ya. Phlebotomy fever. In: The Great Medical Encyclopedia. [Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya]. 3rd ed. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia; 1985; vol. 26: 340—342. (In Russian)16.17.Shoshina M.A. Latyshev Nikolay Ivanovich. In: The Great Medical Encyclopedia. [Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya]. 3rd ed. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia; 1980; vol. 12: 352—353. (In Russian)18.19.Latyshev Nikolay Ivanovich. In: Figures of medical science and healthcare — employees and pets of the Moscow Medical Academy named after I.M.Sechenov: Biographical Dictionary. [Deyateli meditsinskoy nauki i zdravookhraneniya — sotrudniki i pitomtsy Moskovskoy meditsinskoy akademii im. I.M.Sechenova: Biograficheskiy slovar']. Ed. by M.A.Paltsev, A.M.Stochik, S.N.Zatravkin. 1st ed. Moscow: Shico; 2008: 309. (In Russian)20.21.Zhilyaev E.G., Chepur S.V., Yudin A.B., Sidorov V.A. The State Research and Testing Institute of Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is 85 years old. Military Medical Journal. [Voenno-meditsinskiy zhurnal]. 2015; 11: 65—72. (In Russian)22.23.Belova L.V., Batkaeva N.V. She lived in three centuries! Natalia Vasilyevna Dobrotvorskaya-Kozhevnikova (1895—2000) and her entourage. (To the 120th anniversary of his birth and the 15th anniversary of his death). Bulletin of Postgraduate medical education. [Vestnik poslediplomnogo meditsinskogo obrazovaniya]. 2016; 3: 57—64.24.25.Latyshev N.I. On the priority of domestic scientists in the study of Borovsky's disease. In: Essays on the history of parasitology. [Ocherki po istorii parazitologii]. Ed. by N. P.G.Sergiev and N.N.Plotnikov. Moscow: Medgiz; 1953: 39—49. (In Russian)26.27.Latyshev N.I., Kryukova A.P. Epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in sandy desert conditions. In: Problems of cutaneous leishmaniasis: A collection of works of the first international republican meeting on cutaneous leishmaniasis and the mosquito problem. (Ashgabat, 30/V — 4/VI 1940). [Problemy kozhnogo leyshmanioza: Sbornik rabot pervogo mezhdunarodnogo respublikanskogo soveshchaniya po kozhnomu leyshmaniozu i moskitnoy probleme. (Ashkhabad, 30/V — 4/VI 1940 g.)] Ashgabat: Turkmengosizdat; 1941: 55—73. (In Russian)28.29.Latyshev N.I., Kryukova A.P. The experience of eliminating the endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Turkmenistan. In:Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. [Doklady Akademii nauk SSSR]. 1941; 30(1): 93—96. (In Russian)30.31.Pervomaisky G.S. A brief outline of scientific, pedagogical and social activities. In: Evgeny Nikanorovich Pavlovsky. [Evgeniy Nikanorovich Pavlovskiy]. Ed. by A.A. Strelkov. 2nd ed. Moscow: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences; 1956: 11—33. (In Russian)32.33.Latyshev N.I., Kozhevnikov P.V., Povalishina T.P. Borovsky's disease. (Cutaneous leishmaniasis, Pendin ulcer, Ashgabat ulcer). [Bolezn' Borovskogo. (Kozhnyy leyshmanioz, pendinskaya yazva, ashkhabadskaya yazva)]. Moscow: Medgiz; 1953. (In Russian)34.35.Suvorov V.S. Borovsky Peter Fokich. In: The Great Medical Encyclopedia. [Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya]. 3rd ed. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia; 1976; vol. 3: 336. (In Russian)36.37.Soloviev M.M. Leishman William (1865—1926). In: The Great Medical Encyclopedia. [Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya]. 3rd ed. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia; 1980; vol. 12: 492. (In Russian)38.39.Kozhevnikov P.V., Dobrotvorskaya N.V., Latyshev N.I. The doctrine of cutaneous leishmaniasis: For doctors and biologists. [Uchenie o kozhnom leyshmanioze: Dlya vrachey i biologov]. Ed. by N.I. Latyshev. Moscow: Medgiz, 1947. (In Russian)