Ilya Borisovich Zbarsky (russian: Илья Борисович Збарский; November 8, 1913 – November 9, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian biochemist who served as the head of
Lenin's Mausoleum
Lenin's Mausoleum (from 1953 to 1961 Lenin's & Stalin's Mausoleum) ( rus, links=no, Мавзолей Ленина, r=Mavzoley Lenina, p=məvzɐˈlʲej ˈlʲenʲɪnə), also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow, i ...
from 1956 to 1989. He was appointed as Advisor at the Direction of the Institute in 1989 due to his age. He was the son of
Boris Zbarsky, who helped mummify Lenin's body in 1924.
Zbarsky was a member of the
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (russian: Акаде́мия медици́нских нау́к СССР) was the highest scientific and medical organization founded in the Soviet Union founded in 1944.
Its successor is the Russian Academy of ...
.
With Samuel Hutchinson, he was the author of the book ''Lenin's Embalmers''.
He died on November 9, 2007 in Moscow.
References and sources
Ilya Borisovich Zbarsky biography
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1913 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Russian chemists
People from Kamianets-Podilskyi
Academicians of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
Moscow State University alumni
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Molecular biologists
Russian biochemists
Russian Jews
Soviet biochemists
Soviet Jews
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