Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot146810.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-2-291-295НеопределенOn the 120th anniversary of A. A. Otelin — scientist, morphologist, pedagogue and organizerNikishinaN Anan2008@mail.ruThe Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Kursk State Medical University” of Minzdrav of Russia, 305000, Kursk, Russia180420243222104202521042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article presents scientific biography of A. A. Otelin outstanding morphologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, representative of scientific school of Academician V. P. Vorobyov. The contribution of A. A. Otelin into becoming of morphological chairs in medical institutes of Kharkov, Lvov, Vinnitsa, Kishinev, Kursk and Kemerovo and in formation of scientific morphological schools in the regions of the RSFSR and the Republics of the USSR is demonstrated. The particular attention is paid to results of scientific studies of A. A. Otelin in the 1970s carried out jointly with scientists of the Institute of Brain of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences concerning investigation of morphology of sensitive receptors Vater-Pacini corpuscules.</p>V. P. VorobyovA. A. Otelinanatomyperipheral nervous systemVater–Pacini corpusclehistory of scienceВ. П. ВоробьевА. А. Отелинанатомияпериферическая нервная системательца Фатера—Пачиниистория науки1.Ivanov A. V., Tkachenko P. V., Dolgareva S. A., Dudka V. T., Danilova A. V., Nikishina N. A., Puchkov V. I. The history of the formation of scientific schools of the Kursk State Medical Institute: 1935—1940. Istoriya nauki i tekhniki = History of Science and Technology. 2022;(9):22—31 (in Russian).2.Nikishina N. A., Tkachenko P. V., Ivanov A. V., Dolgareva S. A., Puchkov V. I. The history of the formation of natural science research areas in the city of Kursk. Istoriya i pedagogika yestestvoznaniya = History and Pedagogy of Natural Sciences. 2022;(4):25—31. doi: 10.24412/2226-2296-2022-4-25-31 (in Russian).3.Ivanov A. V., Kharchenko V. V., Nikishina N. A., Ryazaeva L. M. Formation and development of the departments of anatomy and histology of the Kursk State Medical University. In: Achievements of modern morphology — practical medicine and education: Collection of scientific articles based on the materials of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation, dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Kursk State Medical University, the 120th anniversary of birth of Professor K. S. Bogoyavlensky, 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor D. A. Sigalevich, 100th nniversary of the birth of Professor Z. N. Gorbatsevich. Kursk, May 21—23, 2020 [Dostizheniya sovremennoy morfologii — prakticheskoy meditsine i obrazovaniyu: Sb. nauchnykh statey po materialam Vserossiyskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiyem, posvyashchennoy 85-letiyu Kurskogo gosudarstvennogo meditsinskogo universiteta, 120-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya professora K. S. Bogoyavlenskogo, 100-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya professora D. A. Sigalevicha, 100-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya professora Z. N. Gorbatsevich. Kursk, 21—23 maya 2020 g.]. Kursk: Kursk State Medical University; 2020. P. 10—25 (in Russian).4.Otelin A. A., Mashansky V. F., Mirkin A. S. Vater-Pacini body. Structural and functional features [Tel'tse Fater—Pachini. Strukturno-funktsional'nyye osobennosti]. Leningrad: Science, Leningrad branch; 1976. 175 p. (in Russian).