Igor P. Ashmarin

In the Department of Physiology, the former Head, Igor Ashmarin, was always intransigent, but his successor Andrej Kanyenskij is even more inflexible and conformist.
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The psychology of the teachers is illustrated by Igor Ashmarin's claim that putting frogs into a refrigerator constitutes anaesthesia.

Igor P. Ashmarin, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Chair of Human and Animal Physiology, Biological Faculty of the Moscow State University