“We regret to inform you that on October 29, 2020, at the age of 92, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky died.
We mourn the loss and express our sincere condolences to the family and relatives of Valentin Ivanovich, friends and colleagues, ”the message says.
Pokrovsky was the author of priority research in the field of epidemiology and infectious pathology.
In addition, the researcher contributed to the study of previously unknown diseases: rotavirus infection, mycoplasma pneumonia, legionellosis, pneumocystosis.
Earlier, at the age of 64, Igor Morozov, a specialist in the Russian ethnos, died.