This document summarizes information about several prominent Russian physicians and scientists, their contributions, and streets/locations named after them in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It discusses Ivan Sechenov, the founder of Russian physiology; Nikolay Semashko, the first Soviet People's Commissar of Public Health; and Irina Blokhina, a microbiologist who made significant contributions to immunobiological drugs. It also mentions Nadezhda Suslova as the first Russian woman physician, Vladimir Dal as a renowned linguist and ethnographer, and Anton Chekhov, the famous writer who was also a physician. Overall, the document honors many individuals who advanced medicine and science in Russia.

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Nizhegorodsky district

3. 
Sechenov
Ivan Mikhaylovich
(1829-1905)
"There is a succession of
thoughts in the life of mankind
going through the centuries."
I.M. Sechenov
Sechenov
street
A great Russian physiologist, the founder of the
school of physiology, a scientist-encyclopedist, a
pathologist, a histologist, a toxicologist, a psychologist,
aculturologist, an anthropologist, a chemist, a physicist,
a biochemist, an evolutionist, a military engineer, a
teacher, a publicist, a philosopher.
Professor of Moscow medical faculty,
a corresponding member and an honorary member
of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

4. 
Sechenov's bust
(sculptor –
S.D. Merkulov).
Was put in the
scientist's birthplace
in 1952.
Museum of local history
named in honor of
I.M. Sechenov
Village Sechenovo in Nizhegorodskaya oblast
The birthplace of the great scientist

5. 
Semashko street
Semashko
Nikolay
Alexandrovich
(1874-1949)
«A good physician will be
fed by the people, we don't
need the bad ones».
N.A. Semashko
A hygienist, a statesman, the first
People's Comissar of Public Health.
He was the head of the department
of social hygiene of the medical
faculty of Moscow University, a
Director of the Institute for School
Health of the RSFSR and of the
Institute for Health and History of
Medicine of the Academy of Medical
Sciences.
The founder of the Central
Medical Library and the chief editor
of the Great Medical Encyclopedia.
The first chairman of the
Supreme Council for Physical
Education and Sports, chairman of
All-Union Hygiene Society.
A member of the USSR Academy
of Medical Sciences and the
Academy of Educational sciences.

6. 
Nizhny Novgorod
Semashko Regional
Clinical Hospital

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Academician Blokhina street
Blokhina
Irina Nikolaevna
(1921-1999)
A well-known microbiologist
and a public figure, an
academician of the Academy
of Medical sciences, the head
of Nizhegorodsky SRI
of microbiology and
epidemiology (1955-1997),
the founder of the department
of molecular biology in GSU
(1976). She made a significant
contribution to the development
of immunobiological drugs for
treatment and for prophylaxis.

8. 
Blokhina Nizhny Novgorod
Research Institute
of Epidemiology and
Microbiology

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Sovetsky district
Бульвар
академика Королева

10. 
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Suslova
Nadezhda
Prokofyevna
(1843-1918)
“I am the first, but not the last.
I will be followed by
thousands...”
N.P. Suslova
The first Russian woman physician,
I.M. Sechenov's apprentice. She got her medical
education in surgery and obstetrics at the
University of Zurich. In 1868 after passing
a special examination and defending her thesis
she was allowed to practice medicine in Russia.
Nadezhda Suslova
street

11. 
House №57
on Volodarskaya street
where N.P. Suslova
used to live
«She was eager to participate in the common cause and she got into
it not only disinterestedly, but also self-sacrificingly…
In her thirst for getting higher education she showed herself as
a serious, patient person and was an example of great courage».
F. M. Dostoevsky

12. A prominent Russian
surgeon, Hero of the Socialist
Labour, Academician of the
Academy of Medical Sciences,
Honoured Scientist, a full
member of the society
of cardio-vascular surgeons,
a Member of International
Society of Surgeons,
a recipient of orders and
medals, an Honorary Citizen
of Nizhny Novgorod, a
graduate of Gorky medical
institute, a professor of
NNSMA.
Бульвар
академика Королева
Korolyov
Boris Alekseevish
(1909-2010)

13. 
Commemorative plaques dedicated
to B. A. Korolyov

14. 
Prioksky district

15. 
Kashchenko
Petr Petrovich
(1858-1920)
«The first and the main aim
of activities for mentally ill people
should be the very well-being of the
patient himself...»
P.P. Kashchenko
A famous Russian psychiatrist, a public figure, the author
of numerous articles on psychiatry and organization of
psychiatric help. The founder of several psychiatric clinics in
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod. He developed
fundamentals of organization of treatment for mentally ill
patients in Russia, put forward several progressive ideas
(necessity of out-patients departments, patronage, the
system of loyalty towards mentally ill patients, labour
therapy, etc.)
Kashchenko
street

16. 
Kashchenko street.
Bulding complex for mentally
ill people, village Lyakhovo
(1899-1908).

17. 
Kanavinsky district

18. 
Dal
Vladimir
Ivanovich
(1801-1872)
“I will sacrifice myself for truth,
for homeland and for
Russian language!”
V. I. Dal
A Russian scientist, a writer, an ethnographer, a
linguist, a lexicographer, a physician. The compiler of
"Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian
language" and "The Sayings and Bywords of the Russian
people". The author of numerous books and scientific
articles. A member of St. Petersburg Academy of
Sciences, an honorary member of the Imperial Academy
of Sciences.
Dal street

19. 
Building on the crossing
of Bolshaya Pecherskaya
street and Semashko street,
where the hospital was
situated in 1849-1859 and
where V.I. Dal lived and
worked.
Commemorative plaque
on the house with the writer's
image in relief
(by NizhnyNovgorod sculptor
V.I. Purikhov)
Genkina N.A.
«Vladimir Dal in Nizhny
Novgorod»
Canvas, oil. 80x100. 2001

20. 
Dolgopolov
Nifont
Ivanovich
(1857-1922)
A great Nizhny Novgorod public
figure, a surgeon. He worked
as a chief physician and surgeon at
Nizhny Novgorod Babushkinskaya
(Kanavinskaya) hospital. He was
a member of Nizhny Novgorod
division of the Russian society for
protecting public health, a member
of the State Duma (1906-1917).
Dolgopolov street

21. 
Building of Babushkinskaya (Kanavinskaya)
hospital where N.I. Dolgopolov worked
in 1897-1905.
A.M. Gorky being
examined
by N.I. Dolgopolov.

22. 
Moskovsky district

23. 
Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich
(1860-1904)
«Without work there is no
happy and pure life».
A. P. Chekhov
A great Russian writer, playwright, a physician
by profession. The author of approximately 900
various works (short humour stories, serious
novellas, plays, etc), many of which later became
classics of the world literature. He was an
honorable member of the Imperial Academy of
Sciences.
Chekhov street

24. 
A. P. Chekhov and L. N. Tolstoy
(Nizhny Novgorod)
A. P. Chekhov and A. M. Gorkiy
Memorial to A. P. Chekhov in
village Belaya which the writer
visited in 1892 to help starving
people.

25. 
Botkin street
Botkin
Sergey Petrovich
(1832-1889)
«I need scientific work like
I need bread, without which I am
sure not to be capable to exist».
S.P. Botkin
S.P. Botkin making his rounds in the clinic.
A great Russian therapist, a public figure,
one of the founders of the physiological school
of Russian clinical medicine, the founder of
Russian military field therapy. He created the
study of the body as the whole structure. He
was a professor of the medical and surgical
Academy. He took part in the Crimean war
(1885) and in the Russian-Turkish war (1877).

26. 
Mechnikov
street
Mechnikov
Ilya Ilyich
(1832-1889)
«The characteristic feature of
the science is that it requires a
huge amount of hard work».
I.I. Mechnikov
I.I. Mechnikov in his laboratory
A Russian and French zoologist, an embryologist, an
immunologist, a physiologist and a pathologist. He (together
with P. Ehrlich) got the Nobel Prize in Physiology and
Medicine for their contribution to immunology. He is one of
the founders of evolutional embryology, the founder of the
comparative pathology of inflammation and the
phagocytosis theory of immunity, the founder of scientific
gerontology. He was a corresponding member and an
honorary member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

27. 
Leninsky district

28. 
Academician Bach
street
Bach
Alexey
Nikolayevich
(1857-1946)
«Science in the society tries
to ease the work of a person,
improve the quality of life and
a person himself».
A.N. Bach
A. N. Bach with young scientists.
A scientist and a public figure, the founder of Soviet
school of biochemistry, an academician of the Academy
of Sciences of USSR. He was the founder and the first
director of the physical and chemical institute and the
institute of Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of
USSR. He initiated and was the first editor-in-chief of
the all-union research journal «Biokhimiya».

29. 
Avtozavodsky district

30. 
Academician
Pavlov street
Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich
(1849-1936)
«I strongly believe that
progress in science brings
happiness to the humanity».
I.P. Pavlov
I.P. Pavlov making a report at the
XV congress of physiologists
(1936)
One of the greatest scientists in Russia, a physiologist,
the founder of the study of the higher nervous activity and
the study of the regulation of digestive processes; the
founder of the biggest Russian physiological school; the first
Russian laureate of the Nobel prize in Medicine and
Physiology for his work on the physiology of digestion.
A corresponding member and a full member of
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. The head of the
Institute of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

31. 
Burdenko
street
Burdenko
Nikolay Nilovich
(1876-1946)
«Always forward, after every
perfect step be prepared to take
another one, think only about the
things needed to be done».
N.N. Burdenko
N.N. Burdenko with his
students and colleagues
A Russian and Soviet surgeon, a health care organiser, the
founder of Russian neurosurgery. An academician and the first
president of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Colonel-
general of the Medical Service, the chief surgeon of the Red
Army. He created the school of surgeons with the experimental
direction, developed surgical methods of treating tumours of the
central and vegetative nervous system, blood circulation
pathologies, cerebral blood circulation.

32. 
Orbeli street
Orbeli
Leon Abgarovich
(1882-1958)
L.A. Orbeli with his wife
A Russian and Soviet physiologist, one of the
founders of evolutionary physiology. An
academician and vice-president of the USSR
Academy of Sciences. Colonel-general of Medical
Services. He researched the state of a human
body in extreme conditions (aviation physiology,
diving). He was the head of the first USSR
laboratory of age physiology.

33. 
Physician Vlasenko street
Vlasenko
Vladimir Georgievich
(1891-1956) Houses on Iliich avenue in
Avtozavodsky district, 1935
An honoured physician of the RSFSR,
colonel, a candidate of medical sciences,
participated in three wars. From 1931 he
worked in the structure of medical institutions
at Gorky automobile plant.

34. 
 Vrachebny alley (Kanavinsky district)
 Veterinarnaya street (Sovetsky
district)
In Nizhny Novgorod there is also:
 Meditsinskaya
street (Prioksky
district)

35. 
City hospital №4
House where the famous
Nizhny Novgorod surgeon
P.N. Mikhalkin lived
Monument to the surgeon
V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky
(Archbishop Luka)
Commemorative plaques dedicated
to great physicians

36. 
Books of great scientists of medicine
published in their lifetime.
From the rare book repository of the library

37. 
Life given to medicine