Anatoly Amelin

Anatoly Amelin (24th of December 1914, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire – 17th of January 1992, Riga, Republic of Latvia) – Doctor of medicine, a pathologist.

A. Amelin was born in the town of Fatezh, Kursk Governorate, into the family of an office employee. He completed school there in 1931 and graduated from the Donetsk Medical Institute in 1937.

After graduating from the Medical Institute, he worked as an assistant (1937–1941), and during the Second World War as a pathologist (1941–1945), later serving as the head of the Pathological Anatomy Laboratory of the Baltic Military District (1945–1947), holding the rank of lieutenant colonel in the medical service.

In 1947, Amelin was appointed assistant at the Faculty of Medicine of the Latvian State University (LSU). That same year, he became the head of the Laboratory of Pathological Histology at the Latvian Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics.

In 1947, A. Amelin defended his Candidate of Medical Sciences dissertation at LSU on the topic “Evolution of a Gunshot Wound of the Lung.” In 1958, at the Central Institute for Advanced Medical Studies in Moscow, he defended his Doctor of Medical Sciences dissertation on “Morphological Changes in the Resorption of Bone Tissue.” He was awarded the title of Professor in 1962.

His scientific work was devoted to the study of the physiology and pathology of bone tissue, based on the diagnosis of musculoskeletal diseases and biopsy results, as well as the diagnosis of heart and circulatory diseases.

Anatoly Amelin passed away on January 17, 1992, in Riga and was buried at the Šmerlis Cemetery.

A. Amelin’s daughter, Tatyana (born 1941), is a philologist. She graduated from the Latvian State University in 1963 and received her Candidate of Philological Sciences degree in 1973.

Erika Tyunina

Sources of information:

„Populārā medicīnas enciklopēdija”, Rīga, Galvenā enciklopēdiju redakcija, 1985.;

A. Vīksna. „Latvijas universitātes Medicīnas fakultāte 1919-1950”, LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2011.