Kulyabko

Kulyabko Alexey Alexandrovich, physiologist. (1866-1930) In 1888 he graduated from the natural sciences department of St. Petersburg University and entered the Military Medical Academy. He completed the medical faculty course in Tomsk, where he was invited in 1890 as a prosector. From 1895 he was a laboratory assistant, and from 1898 a physiologist at the physiological laboratory of the Academy of Sciences; from 1898 he was a privat-docent at St. Petersburg University, then a professor of physiology first at Kazan (1902), and in the same year at Tomsk University until 1924. From 1925 to 1927 he was an active member of the Clinical Institute of Glavnauka in Moscow and a consultant to some other scientific research institutes. He worked abroad under Hering and Engelmann. Kulyabko gained worldwide fame for his experiments on reviving the human heart. Numerous works by Kulyabko concern the physiology of blood circulation, muscle and nervous systems, and isolated organs. The most important works by K.: "On the question of bile capillaries" (histological research, dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1897); "Experiments on reviving the heart" (Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences, vol. XVI, No. 3, 1902); "Further experiments on reviving the heart-Reviving the human heart" (ibid., vol. XVII, No. 5, 1902); "Pharmacological and toxicological studies on the excised heart" (Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences, vol. XVI, No. 7, 1904); "Application of artificial circulation on a separated fish head" (Russian Medical Journal, vol. XX, No. 7, 1907). Most of Kulyabko's works were also published in foreign specialized press.