like simple solutions, nikolai anichkov understood this well and decided to devote his scientific activities to the search for deeper causes of atherosclerosis. nikolai nikolaevichchkov, pathologist-anatomist, doctor of medical sciences, professor, president of the ussr academy of medical sciences, member of nine foreign academies of scientific societies. first described specialized cells of the myocardium, called anichkov cells, and discovered the leading role of lipids, mainly cholesterol, in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. the future academician was born in 1885 in st. petersburg, in a family quite famous in the russian empire. my father , nikolai anechkov, also had the rank of actual privy councilor. a member of the senate, he held the post of comrade minister of public education, which is how the position of deputy minister was then called. mother lyubov anichkova, daughter of a famous figure of the russian orthodox church church of protopresbyter joseph vasiliev. after graduating from high school with a gold medal, the young man enters the military medical academy. among his scientific supervisors was in particular. professor maksimov, one of the foun