Family pedigree of the Soviet microbiologist Nikolai Akimovich Gaisky (Samara period)

Taking into account the novelty and relevance of the problems of genealogical research in modern Russian historiography, this article attempts to recreate the family pedigree of Nikolai Akimovich Gaisky (1884–1947), a famous Soviet microbiologist, specialist in the study of tularemia, plague and a number of other infections, MD, Deputy Director of Science at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, Stalin Prize laureate. N.A. Gaisky was born in Samara, into a large middle-class family. His childhood years were spent here, and he returned here after graduating from university, working for a number of years in the field of epidemic control in the Samara province. The main source base of the research was made up of documents from the funds of the Samara Provincial Zemstvo Council, the Samara Treasury Chamber, the Samara City Duma and the Samara Orphan Court, concentrated in the Central State Archive of the Samara Region. The article establishes the personalities of the scientist's ancestors in a direct descending line and those episodes of their biographies reflected in archival documents. Attention is also paid to the various connections of representatives of the Gaisky family with the Samara province in the pre-revolutionary period, related to the ownership and lease of land and the construction of the estate.