Vasily Parin
Founder of Soviet space medicine
Timeline - Parin in the record
5 entries from the Secret Dawn - Among the Stars archive, 5 of them events in Parin's own life.
Vasily Parin, son of a physician, becomes a leading Soviet physiologist specialising in circulation and the reflexes of the heart.
Sent to the United States on a scientific mission, Parin is accused on his return under article 58-1a of passing Soviet cancer research to the Americans, and imprisoned, a victim of late-Stalin paranoia.
Parin is released on 29 October 1953 and fully rehabilitated on 13 April 1955; he turns to the new field of space physiology, bringing clinical rigour to the study of the body in flight.
The Institute of Biomedical Problems is founded in October 1963 under its first director A. V. Lebedinsky; Parin takes over its leadership in 1965 and shapes the medical selection and monitoring of cosmonauts.
Parin dies in Moscow; the discipline of Soviet space medicine he helped found outlives him at the institute he built.
The research file for this dossier holds 7 verified source entries, 7 of them distinct works. The sources page lists every one of them with what it covers, how it was reached, and the sharpest point at which this page and its sources come apart.