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Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russian Empire to a village priest. He showed an early interest in science and physiology. After studying at the University of St. Petersburg, where he conducted early research on pancreas nerves, Pavlov went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery. He later obtained positions at the Veterinary Institute and the Botkin Clinic in St. Petersburg, where he conducted seminal research on the physiology of the circulatory system and nerves of the heart that established his reputation in the field of physiology.

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Ryazan Russian Empire Russian Orthodox

Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russian Empire to a village priest. He showed an early interest in science and physiology. After studying at the University of St. Petersburg, where he conducted early research on pancreas nerves, Pavlov went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery. He later obtained positions at the Veterinary Institute and the Botkin Clinic in St. Petersburg, where he conducted seminal research on the physiology of the circulatory system and nerves of the heart that established his reputation in the field of physiology.

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Ivan Pavlov, the eldest of eleven children,[10] was born in Ryazan, Russian Empire.

His father,
Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov (1823–1899), was a village Russian orthodox priest.[11] His mother,
Varvara Ivanovna Uspenskaya (1826–1890), was a devoted homemaker. As a child, Pavlov
willingly participated in house duties such as doing the dishes and taking care of his siblings. He
loved to garden, ride his bicycle, row, swim, and play gorodki; he devoted his summer vacations
to these activities.[12] Although able to read by the age of seven, Pavlov was seriously injured
when he fell from a high wall onto a stone pavement. As a result of the injuries he sustained[13] he
did not begin formal schooling until he was 11 years old.[10]

Pavlov attended the Ryazan church school before entering the local theological seminary. In
1870, however, he left the seminary without graduating to attend the university at St. Petersburg.
There he enrolled in the physics and math department and took natural science courses. In his
fourth year, his first research project on the physiology of the nerves of the pancreas[14] won him
a prestigious university award. In 1875, Pavlov completed his course with an outstanding record
and received the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences. Impelled by his overwhelming interest
in physiology, Pavlov decided to continue his studies and proceeded to the Imperial Academy of
Medical Surgery. While at the Academy, Pavlov became an assistant to his former teacher, Elias
von Cyon.[15] He left the department when de Cyon was replaced by another instructor.

After some time, Pavlov obtained a position as a laboratory assistant to Konstantin Nikolaevich
Ustimovich at the physiological department of the Veterinary Institute.[16] For two years, Pavlov
investigated the circulatory system for his medical dissertation.[10] In 1878, Professor S. P.
Botkin, a famous Russian clinician, invited the gifted young physiologist to work in the
physiological laboratory as the clinic's chief. In 1879, Pavlov graduated from the Medical
Military Academy with a gold medal award for his research work. After a competitive
examination, Pavlov won a fellowship at the Academy for postgraduate work.[17] The fellowship
and his position as director of the Physiological Laboratory at Botkin's clinic enabled Pavlov to
continue his research work. In 1883, he presented his doctor's thesis on the subject of The
centrifugal nerves of the heart and posited the idea of nervism and the basic principles on the
trophic function of the nervous system. Additionally, his collaboration with the Botkin Clinic
produced evidence of a basic pattern in the regulation of reflexes in the activity of circulatory
organs.

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