BUTYAGIN

BUTYAGIN, Pavel Vasilyevich, known bacteriologist, professor of microbiology at Tomsk State University (from 1916) and director of the Tomsk Regional Bacteriological Institute (from 1906); born in 1867; graduated from the medical faculty of Tomsk University in 1893; in 1896-1906 he headed

the station he established

at the university, which was the first in Siberia for producing anti-diphtheria serum; in 1902-16 he was a privat-docent in the course of bacteriology; in 1905-1906 he directly participated in the organization of the Bacteriological Institute at Tomsk University, which later, in 1920, came under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Health and is currently the largest and most organized institute in Siberia. Main scientific works: "On changes in the blood of horses immunized against diphtheria," dissertation, Tomsk, 1901; "On the effect of low temperatures on the viability of bacteria," Tomsk, 1909; "On the content of catalase in bacterial cultures," "Kharkov Medical Journal," vol. XVIII, 1914; "On the bacillary agents of dysentery," Tomsk, 1911; "Zur Bakteriologie der bacillaren Dysenteries," Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde u. Infektionskrankheiten, Orig., B. LXIII, 1912; "Die chemischen Veranderungen des Fleisches beim Schimmeln," Archiv fur Hygiene, B. LII, 1905.