title: [Hnat Omelianovych. Ruchko (1883-1937): tragic destiny of the scientist].
abstract: The life and scientific activity of Gnat O.Ruchko, an outstanding scientist-microbiologist, the former director of the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology are investigated. Many data and facts are represented for the first time, some of them are refined and corrected, since their sources are both the recollections of scientist's colleagues kept in the Institute archives and extracts from personal file trumped-up by NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) after Ruchko's imprisonment and kept in SBU (Ukrainian Security Service) archives. Special attention is devoted to analysis of scientist's works on bacteriophages, epidemiology and also to role of Gnat O.Ruchko in the Institute reorganization and creation of the Department of Agricultural Plants Bacterioses.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Hamaliia
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D045809:Human Rights Abuses / Q000266:history; D008829:Microbiology / Q000266:history*; D012425:Russia (Pre-1917); D014586:USSR