The handwritten journal of the registration of pathoanatomical autopsies by Professor Alexey Abrikosov

Alexey Ivanovich Abrikosov –6.01.1875 – 04/19/1955) was a Russian pathologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, professor at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute. Abrikosov made a significant contribution to the study of tuberculosis, supplemented and changed its classification.

He is the author of more than 100 published scientific papers devoted mainly to pulmonary tuberculosis, pathological anatomy of sympathetic nerve nodes, muscle tumors, morphology of allergies, and sepsis problems.

Author of a number of textbooks and manuals: "Technique of pathoanatomical autopsies of corpses" (1925, 4th ed., 1948); "Fundamentals of general pathological anatomy" (1933, 9th ed., 1949); "Fundamentals of private pathological anatomy" (1939, 4th ed., 1950); "Private pathological anatomy" (3 issue, 1938-1947).

In 1935-1955 he was the editor of the journal "Archive of Pathology".

He is widely known for doing the first embalming of Lenin's body and drawing up a conclusion about his death.

The grandson and full namesake of the Russian entrepreneur and founder of the A. I. Abrikosov Sons Factory and Trading Partnership (now the Babaevsky Concern) Alexey Ivanovich Abrikosov.

Abrikosovsky Lane (until 1955 — the Second Clinical Lane) is an alley in the Central Administrative District of Moscow in the Khamovniki district. It is located between Pogodinskaya Street and Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street. It received its modern name on July 1, 1955 in honor of academician A.I.Abrikosov.