To the 90th anniversary of birth of the honoured doctor of the RSFSR, MD, PhD, professor Serafim Zakharovich Piskunov

Serafim Zakharovich was born on February 2, 1936, to the family of rural teacher Zakhar Timofeyevich Piskunov and rural nurse Maria Afanasyevna Piskunova in a house-school—a former parish school where his paternal grandfather, Afanasy Petrovich Gubanov, had worked as a teacher before the revolution. The teacher’s family lived in one half of the house; the other half served as a primary school classroom, where his aunt, Anna Afanasyevna Malysheva, taught. Next to the school was a large garden planted by Seraphim Zakharovich’s grandfather, a cemetery, and the ruins of the Church of the Nativity of Christ, which was demolished in 1936. Seraphim Zakharovich spent his childhood in this garden.