[Ippolit Vasilyevich Davydovsky -academician, educator, healthcare organizer]

Ippolit Vasilyevich Davydovsky was born in 1887 in Danilov, Yaroslavl province, into the family of a clergyman. He received his primary education in a parochial church school. After I.V. Davydovsky's family moved to Yaroslavl, he continued his education in a men's gymnasium. Having successfully graduated from the gymnasium, I.V. Davydovsky in 1905 entered the medical faculty of Moscow State University, where he studied and was influenced by Acad. A.I. Abrikosov formed his first scientific interests. After graduating from the university in 1910, I.V. Davydovsky worked as a sanitary doctor and then as a zemstvo doctor. In 1912. I.V. Davydovsky received the title of Doctor of Medicine and a year later became a prozektor of the Yauza Hospital, which today bears his name. At this time, under the influence of Prof. M.N. Nikiforov, I.V. Davydovsky began to be interested in infectious pathology, which was later reflected in a number of his scientific works on typhus, paratyphus, dysentery and other infectious diseases.