Ivan Ivanovich ARKHANGELSKY (November 23, 1905 – ? ) – veterinary microbiologist, Doctor of Veterinary Sciences (1943), Professor, head of the Laboratory for the study of cattle diseases of the Kazakh National Veterinary Institute (1939 – 1951). Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR, awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was born into a family of employees in the city of Kazan.

After receiving secondary education in 1925, he entered the Siberian (Omsk) Veterinary Institute, from which he graduated in 1930.

I.I. Arkhangelsky began his career in Buryatia as a practical veterinarian of the state farms of the Sheep Breeding Trust, but soon quit and went to work at the Regional Veterinary Laboratory in Ulan-Ude as a bacteriologist, where he worked for 5 years (1930-1935).

In 1935, I.I. Arkhangelsky left the position of bacteriologist and went to the Kuibyshev city, where he entered the zonal veterinary experimental station as a researcher, in the same year he quit and moved to the Kuibyshev Sanitary and Epidemiological Institute, where, under the guidance of major professors, he was already formed as a bacteriologist.

In the late 30s, he prepared and defended his PhD thesis “Comparative evaluation of some Gertner vaccines”, which was published in 1939 in the 4th volume of Scientific Papers of the Kazan Veterinary Institute.

At the end of October 1939, I.I. Arkhangelsky entered the Kazakh Scientific Research Veterinary Institute, then called KazSRVPS, as head of the laboratory for the study of diseases of cattle, where for several years he conducted research on the problems of combating diplococcal infection of farm animals, wrote and defended his doctoral thesis in 1943 dissertation on the topic “On the issue of diplococcal infection of animals”. After the approval of the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Sciences, I.I.Arkhangelsky was awarded the title of professor.

The object of I.I. Arkhangelsky’s study was the diplococcal infection of calves, he developed and proposed for industrial production a method for obtaining therapeutic serum against this infection. Under the scientific guidance of I.I. Arkhangelsky, a number of vaccines against paratyphoid (salmonellosis) of calves were developed, successfully applied as a result of extensive production experience in the farms of the republic and in 1949 received approval from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kazakh SSR.

In the early 1950s, I.I. Arkhangelsky was expelled from the ranks of the CPSU. The leadership of KazSRVI did everything possible to somehow mitigate the punishment of I.I.Arkhangelsky and prevent the republic from losing a major veterinary scientist, but the party authorities were adamant. This was the reason for the forced departure from the Institute of I.I. Arkhangelsky. At the time of his dismissal from KazSRVI, I.I.Arkhangelsky published over 30 scientific papers.

A little later, the scientists wrote articles for the fundamental 6-volume edition of the Veterinary Encyclopedia, published in the USSR in 1968- 1976. In addition, I.I. Arkhangelsky is the author of a number of chapters of textbooks “Epizootology” for veterinary universities, published in the 60s and 70s.

Writings:

On diplococcal infection of calves in Kazakhstan / In the book: Proceedings of the Kazakh Research Veterinary Institute. – Alma-Ata, 1940.-T.4.-P. 99-133;

Effectiveness of Hertner formolvaccines depending on the biological properties of the strains included in them/Vn.: Proceedings of the Kazakh Research Veterinary Institute. – Alma-Ata, 1940.-T.4.-P. 82-99 (co-authored);

Materials to serologic type of diplococcal strains of calves/Vn.: Proceedings of the Research Veterinary Institute. – Alma-Ata, 1950.-T.5.-P.100-104;

Differential diagnostics of the most important infectious diseases of calves/Vn.: Proceedings of the Veterinary Institute. – Alma-Ata, 1954. -T.6. -P. 119-123;

Ways and methods of prophylaxis of paratyphus of calves / In the book: Proceedings of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine. – Alma-Ata, 1954.-T.6.-P. 134- 140.