Amirajibi

Amirajibi, Semyon Sardionovich, noted Georgian bacteriologist, born in 1876. After graduating from the medical faculty of Kharkiv University (in 1903), he began working as an intern at the therapeutic clinic under Professor F. M. Openkhovsky. From 1904, he worked at the Bacteriological Institute of the Kharkiv Medical Society. In 1905 and 1907, he was twice elected as a resident physician at the therapeutic clinic, but both times was not approved, "due to unreliability." In 1907, he was elected assistant at the Bacteriological Institute. In 1909, he received a scientific commission abroad. He worked under Professor R. Kraus at the Vienna Serum-Therapeutic Institute. In 1913, he was again elected as a supernumerary assistant at the department of hygiene at the medical faculty of Kharkiv University and worked in this position until 1918. In 1919, A. moved to Tiflis, where he participated in the organization of the medical faculty at the newly opened Georgian State University and headed the department of bacteriology. Here A. also managed the Sanitary Institute (where he organized the preparation of serums and vaccines) and the Pasteur Station. In the summer of 1920, he worked in Batumi organizing the fight against plague. Since the Sovietization of Georgia, he has participated in the work of a number of commissions on issues of bacteriology, sanitation and hygiene, worked at the Labor Protection Department of the People's Commissariat of Labor, is a member of the scientific council at the People's Commissariat of Health of Georgia, director of the Sanitary-Hygienic Institute of Tiflis City Health Department, consultant at the Bacteriological Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health of Georgia. He works in the committee for the exploration of a new Tiflis water supply and in the commission for the study of pollution and self-purification of the Kura River.