The work of Andrei Vesalius, the great reformer of anatomy, entitled "On the Structure of the Human Body, in Seven Books," was published by the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1950-1954. This world-first publication in a new language aroused great interest in the great scientist of the Renaissance. The Nauka publishing house is now publishing a biography of Andrei Vesalius. We wrote this biography based on the latest data on the life and work of Vesalius..