Nikolay Aleksandrovich Mislavsky is a physiologist, professor of Kazan University, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Mislavsky was born on April 17 (30), 1854 in Turin mines of the Urals in the family of a doctor. He got primary education in Ekaterinburg gymnasia. Then he came to Kazan and entered the university.

As a student Mislavsky started his researches at the Physiology Department. There he got a good methodical training and deep knowledge in morphology in the laboratory of professor Arnshtein that mainly defined the field of his future work.

In 1855 Nikolay Mislavsky got a post of dissector of the Physiology Department. His works on the nervous regulation mechanism had been published by that time.
In 1891 N. A. Mislavsky became an extraordinary professor at the Physiology Department of the University.

During the Soviet period Nikolay Mislavsky took active part in reorganization of high school system and solved scientific problems fruitfully. Together with V. M. Bekhterev he studied the influence of the cerebral cortex upon internal organs.

The best tradition of Russian scientists was devotion to science, their people and Motherland. Wonderful creative work of one of the outstanding representatives of Russian Physiology professor N. A. Mislavsky was also dedicated to science and people that he loved very much and gave all his knowledge, thoughts and energy of researcher.

Nikolay A. Mislavsky died on December 25, 1929.