Ilya Zbarsky
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Ilya Zbarsky | |
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Born | Ilya Borisovich Zbarsky November 8, 1913 |
Died | November 9, 2007 | (aged 94)
Education | Doctor of Science Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences |
Alma mater | Moscow State University (1935) |
Known for | head of Lenin's Mausoleum |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | First Moscow State Medical University Lenin's Mausoleum |
Ilya Borisovich Zbarsky (Russian: Илья Борисович Збарский; November 8, 1913 – November 9, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian biochemist who served as the head of Lenin's Mausoleum from 1956 to 1989. He was appointed as Advisor at the Direction of the Institute in 1989 due to his age. He was the son of Boris Zbarsky, who helped mummify Lenin's body in 1924.[1] Zbarsky was a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
With Samuel Hutchinson, he was the author of the book Lenin's Embalmers.
He died on November 9, 2007, in Moscow.
References and sources
[edit]- Ilya Borisovich Zbarsky biography Archived 2011-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
References
[edit]- ^ SLEZKINE, YURI (2017-08-07). The House of Government. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvc77htw. ISBN 978-1-4008-8817-7.
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- 20th-century Russian chemists
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- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Molecular biologists
- Russian biochemists
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- Soviet biochemists
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