Mikhail stepanovich maslov – outstanding scientist, pediatrician, teacher (towards 135th anniversary)

The editorial presents medical, scientific, pedagogical activity academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR Mikhail Stepanovich Maslov (1885–1961). Mikhail Stepanovich Maslov Founder and Head of the Pediatrics Department of the Leningrad pediatric medical Institute (1930–1961). Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Michael Stepanovich Maslov has made a great contribution in the development in domestic pediatrics. The head of the Department of faculty Pediatrics of LPMI, аcademician M.S. Maslov went down in history as a great scientist, one of the founders of the Russian scientific pediatric school, as a teacher who brought up several generations of pediatricians and scientific personnel, as a doctor who restored the health of hundreds of thousands of sick children. Academician M.S. Maslov is the author of more than 200 scientific works, including 16 monographs and 8 textbooks. Under the guidance of academician M.S. Maslov, 36 dissertations of the candidate of medical Sciences were completed and defended, 10 dissertations of doctors of science were prepared with scientific advice. The great scientist, teacher, doctor and public figure Mikhail Stepanovich Maslov is the pride of Russian pediatric science, education and healthcare.