До 100-річчя з дня народження видатного науковця і педагога професора Пилипенка Михайла Юхимовича

Abstract

На підставі аналізу архівних матеріалів досліджено життєвий шлях та професіональні здобутки завідувача кафедри анатомії та цитології, гістології і ембріології Харківського зооветеринарного інституту професора, доктора ветеринарних наук Михайла Юхимовича Пилипенка.

M.Yu. Pylypenko was born on October 19, 1918 in the town of Valky, Kharkiv region, to a family of peasants. In 1935 he finished Valky high school. From 1935 to 1938 he studied at Valky Veterinary College. After graduating from college, for one year he worked as a veterinary assistant in Kharkiv І.І. Mechnikov Sanitary and Bacteriological Institute. He began his higher education in 1939 at Kharkiv Veterinary Institute. The training was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. In 1940 M.Yu. Pylypenko was drafted to the ranks of the Red Army, where he served until 1944. During the war, he was seriously wounded, was admitted to hospital as hopeless, and only his youth and will power gave him the opportunity to survive and return to training. In 1947, M.Yu. Pylypenko graduated from institute. In November 1947 M.Yu. Pylypenko was approved as a postgraduate student of the Department of Cytology, Histology and Embryology of Kharkiv Veterinary Institute. But for health reasons, in 1948 M.Yu. Pylypenko suspended postgraduate study. After treatment during 1948-1952 M.Yu. Pylypenko worked at Valky Veterinary Technical School as a deputy director of educational work. In 1952, M.Yu. Pylypenko returned to the graduate course. His research related to the technology of industrial artificial incubation and the morphogenesis of organs and systems of organs of birds in the incubation and post-incubation period. In 1954, M.Yu. Pylypenko graduated from postgraduate studies, after which he was appointed as an assistant in the course of cytology, histology and embryology at Kharkiv Veterinary Institute. In 1956, M.Yu. Pylypenko defended his dissertation on "Embryonic development of chickens in the incubator" Record-39" and their transition to a post-embryonic state." The same year he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in biological sciences. In 1959, the Higher Attestation Commission approved M.Yu. Pylypenko in the academic rank of associate professor in the Department of Cytology, Histology and Embryology. Further life destiny, scientific and pedagogical activity of Mykhailo Yukhymovych were connected with the Department of Cytology, Histology and Embryology of Kharkiv Veterinary Institute, and later – Kharkiv ZooVeterinary Institute. The long-term purposeful research work gradually got closer to the defense of his doctoral dissertation in 1975 on "Thymus in the ontogenesis of ducks and their reactions to certain influences." In 1976, M.Yu. Pylypenko was awarded a doctorate degree in veterinary sciences, and in 1978 he was awarded the title of professor. Since 1979 Professor M.Yu. Pylypenko was the head of the Department of Anatomy and Cytology, Histology and Embryology of Kharkiv ZooVeterinary Institute. In 1996, due to his health, M.Yu. Pylypenko left the department and went on a well-deserved rest. On July 29, 2002, Mykhailo Yukhymovych died, leaving a clear memory of a man, a scientist, and a teacher. We always remember!