 Besides his work as the Head of the Pharmacopoeial Committee of Soviet Union, he during many years worked as an expert of WHO for quality control of medical compounds and a member of the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention.The first edition of originally Soviet pharmacopoeia was published in 1954 with him as only author.The book soon became classical and was used both as pharmacopoeia and as a textbook for students of medicine and pharmacology.