TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR ACADEMY
For many years, the Department of Parasitology carried out a search to update the autobiographical data of Professor Mikhail Arnoldov, who worked as the head of the Department of Epizootology of the Vitebsk Institute (1927), then at the Department of Parasitology until 1931.
It was possible to find out that the master of veterinary sciences, professor M.A. Arnoldov was born in 1868 in the village Novodevichy Sengilivsky district of the Central Volga region. He graduated from the Warsaw Veterinary Institute. He worked as the head of the veterinary bureau of the Saratov province and was in charge of the laboratory. At the end of 1917 he was elected to the post of the Head of the Department of Epizootology of the Kazan Veterinary Institute. In 1924-1925 he worked as rector of the Novocherkassk Veterinary Institute. In 1927 he was elected head of the Department of Epizootology of the Vitebsk Veterinary Institute. In 1928 he was transferred to the Department of Parasitology. In 1933, M.A. Arnoldov was charged with anti-state activities and sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment. He was in camps in the Arkhangelsk region. He was released ahead of schedule on 26.10.1936. He was rehabilitated by the Belarusian military district court on 21.08.1956.
It is also known that M.A. Arnoldov was married to the daughter of the pharmacist of Karsun Yulia Rikhardovna (née Vunt). There were two children in the family. They lived in Vitebsk, Bauman Street, 3. Professor M.A. Arnoldov was one of the organizers and founder of scientific veterinary medicine in Central Russia. He did much to establish higher veterinary education, especially in the field of infectious and invasive animal pathology in the early years of the Vitebsk Veterinary Institute.
