title: Vladimir Germanovich Shtefko
abstract: The article is devoted to the life and creative path of the famous Russian phthisiopathologist, biologist, anatomist and anthropologist, scientist, talented educator and organizer, patriarch of the national school of phthisiopathology, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Vladimir Germanovich Shtefko (1893–1945), who was born in Moscow in the family of an employee. After graduating from the Moscow Real School, he entered the Medical and Physics and Mathematics Faculties of the Imperial Moscow U
journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Medicine