Редактирование: Yuri Pichugin

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Dr. '''Yuri Igorevich Pichugin''' (Russian: Юрий Игоревич Пичугин; August 27, 1951 – legal death November 25, 2018) was a Russian-American chemist, [[Cryobiology|cryobiologist]], and [[Cryonics|cryonicist]]. He was the Director of Research at the [[Cryonics Institute]] in 2001–2007.<ref name="CI">[https://www.cryonics.org/resources/dr-yuri-pichugin-cis-director-of-research-2001-2007 Dr. Yuri Pichugin: CI’s Director of Research 2001-2007]</ref> He developed the [[vitrification]] mixture [[CI-VM-1]] for CI.<ref name="CI-VM-1">[https://translatedby.com/you/ci-vm-1-cryoprotectant-and-ci-carrier-solution-used-for-vitrification/original/ CI-VM-1 Cryoprotectant and CI-Carrier Solution Used for Vitrification]</ref> He was [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]] by [[KrioRus]] in 2018.<ref name="Dailymail">[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6471695/Russian-scientists-freeze-brain-cryogenics-genius-froze-death.html Russian scientists cryogenically freeze the BRAIN of genius who created 'Frankenstein' technology that he claimed could be used to bring humans 'back to life']. ''Dailymail''. December 7, 2018</ref>

Pichugin is one of the signatories of the [[Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics]], having signed it on March 19, 2004.<ref>[https://www.biostasis.com/scientists-open-letter-on-cryonics/ SCIENTISTS’ OPEN LETTER ON CRYONICS]</ref>

== Life and education ==
Pichugin was born on August 27, 1951 in the city of Tomsk in Siberia.<ref name="CI" /> He first became interested in cryonics in 1975 when, as a student in Tomsk, his professors showed him a film on the subject.<ref name="Dailymail" /> The professors showed cryonics negatively, but Pichugin thought cryonics was not impossible.<ref name="Dailymail" />

In 1976, Pichugin graduated from the Tomsk State University (Chemical Faculty, Department of Organic Chemistry), and then in 1978 he moved to Kharkiv, Ukraine, in order to work in the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.<ref name="CI" /> In 1988 he defended his dissertation, called "The Dependence of Cytotoxity and Cryoprotective Activity of Diols on Their Structure and Physicochemical Properties".<ref name="CI" />

Beginning in January 1999, Pichugin worked at the Institute of Neural Cryobiology on projects involving [[Cryopreservation of rat brains|cryopreservation of rat hippocampal slices]], and also at the research institute of a major university in Southern California.<ref name="CI" /> He was the Director of Research at the Cryonics Institute in 2001–2007.<ref name="CI" /> He developed CI-VM-1 (the Cryonics Institute vitrification mixture 1) that CI uses today.<ref name="CI-VM-1" /> Pichugin also gained US citizenship.<ref name="Express">[https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/737769/Cryonics-chemical-solution-frozen-Russian-scientist Boffin who invented ‘resuscitation’ solution says man will be destroyed by 'barbarians']. ''Express''. November 29, 2016</ref>

He returned briefly to Russia to work with KrioRus,<ref name="Express" /> but returned to Ukraine to take care of his mother.<ref name="KrioRus biography">[https://kriorus.ru/content/biografiya Пичугин Юрий Игоревич. Краткая биография] (in Russian)</ref>

== Cryopreservation ==
Pichugin signed up for cryopreservation arrangements with KrioRus in 2012.<ref name="Dailymail" /> On November 25, 2018,<ref name="KrioRus biography" /> he legally died of hypothermia after having collapsed outdoors following a heart attack.<ref name ="Dailymail" /> Neighbors found his lifeless body right next to his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine.<ref name ="Dailymail" />

In 2016, two years before his legal death, he said he had no intention of being cryopreserved, not because he did not believe in cryonics, but because he was disappointed with mankind.<ref name="Express" /> However, he did not rescind his cryopreservation contract, even though the KrioRus spokeswoman [[Valeriya Pride]] suggested him he could do that.<ref name="Dailymail" /> Thus, KrioRus cryopreserved him.<ref name="Dailymail" />