Ignatov, Nikolay Konstantinovich

IGNATOV, Nikolay Konstantinovich (born 1870), professor of experimental hygiene at the 2nd Moscow State University. He graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow University in 1893. From 1896 to 1925, he conducted ongoing research and teaching at the Hygiene Institute of the 1st Moscow State University, receiving the title of professor at the same university in 1918. In 1922, he was elected professor to the chair of experimental hygiene at the Moscow State Higher Medical School, and in 1924, professor of experimental hygiene at the 2nd Moscow State University. Ignatov has more than 40 published scientific works on various branches of hygiene, among them: "On the Question of Coloring Plant Preserves with Copper Salts" (experimental study, dissertation, Moscow, 1898); "Practical Guide to the Methodology of Sanitary and Hygienic Research" (Moscow, 1927); "Nutrition of Children of All Ages" (Moscow, 1928).

Ignatov's works on American and English filters should also be noted, as well as his many years of participation in special commissions of the Moscow City Public Administration, which worked to find the most hygienically acceptable point on the Moskva River for supplying the Moscow water supply with high-quality drinking water, to test the suitability of American mechanical filters for purifying Moskva River water, to study the operation of English filters in Rublevo, and to develop a correct system for their operation.