[Professor V.G.Korenchevsky - scientist, patriot, passionary.]

The article is devoted to the life and work of the Russian-British scientist, Professor of the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Saint-Peterburg and Head of the Oxford Gerontological Research Unit, Vladimir Georgievich Korenchevsky. Among the scientific achievements of V.G.Korenchevsky are the theory of endocrine aging and the concept of geroprotective hormone replacement therapy. V.G.Korenchevsky was the inspirator and organizer of congresses and societies of Russian academic organizations abroad, as well as the inspirator and organizer of the British Society for Research on Ageing and the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics.