In memory of N.N.Sirotinin

Abstract

While still a student, in 1915 Nikolai Nikolaevich Sirotinin began working in the field of bacteriology at the Saratov Veterinary Institute, and from 1917 at the Department of Microbiology at Saratov University. Later (1919-1923) he continued to work on bacteriology in various microbiological institutions in Saratov, starting from the position of a laboratory assistant. Nikolai Nikolayevich instilled this style of training a scientist in his students. He demanded that each employee of the laboratory begin his activity with the rough work of a minister and a laboratory assistant, and only after that would he admit him to independent scientific research.