Anatoly Bezkorovainy was born in Riga, Latvia in 1935, of Russian parents, who had left Russia in the early 1920’s following the Bolshevik revolution. They were married in Riga in 1930. In 1944, the Bezkorovainys left Latvia for Germany, where, after the war, they stayed in a refugee camp, where Anatoly graduated from its Latvian elementary school, and attended a German high school. In 1951, the family emigrated to the U.S., settling in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1953, Anatoly graduated from a Chicago public high school, then from University of Chicago in 1956. He then entered the University of Illinois Graduate College, graduating in 1960 with a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry. He then worked at Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then at the National Animal Disease Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. In 1962, he became an Assistant Professor at Chicago's Rush University, where he stayed until his retirement in 2004. There, Anatoly achieved the rank of full Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, served as an Associate Chairman of the Department and director of its educational programs. He now carries the rank of Professor Emeritus. He is listed Marquis Who’s Who in America as a medical educator. He has (co)authored 6 books and numerous research papers in the areas of iron metabolism, bacterial physiology and science history in Imperial Russia. In 1992, he co-authored a book on the history of Chicago’s Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox parish. Throughout his life, Anatoly has been a member of various Orthodox parishes and has participated in the activities of the Russian immigrant community in Chicago.
In 1964, Anatoly married Marilyn Grib. They have two sons, Gregory and Alexander. Anatoly and his wife live in retirement near Galena, Illinois. Occasionally, he gives lectures on biochemical topics at Rosalind Franklin University in North Chicago.
