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1995 Volume 1, No2, page 8

OUR INTELLECTUALS

Professor MIRA MELIKOV A

So, many people, so many fates that have sometimes longer tales, you know, Assyrians in Russia could tell us exciting stories indeed. L. M. Sargisov mentions the name of the doctor of medical sciences Mira Yulievna Melikova in the epilogue to his book published in 1979. Much later in 1994 a book entitled "References to the Biographical Glossary of Assyrians in Russia (19th to 20th century)" and edited by B. Shumanov was published in St. Petersburg. The name of Yuil Bet-Malik could be found in the list of the delegates from the town of Tambov to the All-union Assyrian Congress held in Moscow in December 1925. His fate is unknown yet. In the archives of the Russian orthodox Christian mission in the town of Urmia we found that Yuil Melikov (Bet Malik) was born in 1893. He finished elementary school in the Russian mission in 1912 (with best grades) and then he was sent to the Tiflis seminary .Two years later he was transferred to the seminary in Tula. We learnt about his fate from his daughter and granddaughter. After he finished the seminary Yuil Yosifovich Melikov entered the medical high school in the town of 'Saratov. Then he worked a medical job in the Caucasian military purpose moto1Way. Later he went back to Tambov where he works as ahead at the local largest hospital. His wife Katja Leskova, a pediatrician was beside him in his work as well. Their children, Mira and Serafima, chose a medical profession too.

After finishing the first Moscow Medical Institute doctor Mira Melikova was sent to work in the military hospital of the Soviet occupation forces in Berlin. In 1948' after she was back in Russia again, Dr. M. Melikova undertook scientific work under guidance from well-known Soviet scientists both academicians A. L. Myasnikov and V. Ch. Vasilenko whom she rightfully consider as her teachers.

Doctor Mifa Melikova has a name in her profession both in Moscow and in the former Soviet Union. She is a leading physician in gastroenterology. In the past 20 years doctor Mira Melikova has contributed a lot to founding a whole scientific school of gastro-enteral specialists in the center of gastroenterology on the basis of the first Moscow Medical Institute and National Gastro-enterology Society. She was elected General Secretary of this Society in 1966 to 1973. She went to attend many major scientific conferences inside her own country- and abroad. Over this period she published over 90 scientific works and made a training film on the gastroenterology issues.

Besides, professor M. Yu. Melikova carries out a very important practical work at the Central Research Scientific Institute of Gastro-enterology where she runs a clinical department. The children of professor Mira Melikova, the son Yuli and the daughter Catherine chose a medical profession again just like their mother to keep in line with the tradition in the family. Yuli heads a department in the regional military hospital while Catherine is already a doctor of medical sciences and senior scientific worker at the Cardiology Research Center of the Russian Academy of the Medical Sciences.