Аннотация:This paper is dedicated to the blessed memory of our editor-in-chief Eduard I. Kolchinsky, who passed away at January 24, 2020. The paper contains a biography of this great scientist, who remained an indisputable authority for historians of biology for many years. For more than a decade since the the creation of our journal, he had been the permanent head of the Editorial Board. He was an honorary member of international scientific societies, a gainer of government awards, and a member of the editorial Board in three major scientific journals. The paper also provides a list of the most important and most significant works written by Eduard Kolchinsky.