About the book: 1963 / A book about the life of a scientist is always interesting. The reader's interest in the hero increases many times over when it comes to a world-famous scientist, the creator of a new science. “Broken Web” is the story of the life and work of a doctor of medical, veterinary and biological sciences, the only academician in the country of three academies (medical, agricultural and Academy of Sciences USSR) Konstantin Ivanovich Scriabin. The scientist made an amazing discovery: the world in which we live is darkened. Twelve thousand species of helminths - parasites - have inhabited the bodies of animals, birds, fish, humans, water bodies, soil, and plants. Humanity is entangled in the networks of a helminthic “web”, which science must study, understand and finally break. The reader becomes not only a witness to the fascinating expeditions undertaken by Academician Scriabin along the Siberian rivers, Central Asia, the Urals and the Far East, but also learns what plan the scientist proposed for in order to completely destroy parasites on the entire planet. In the genre of artistic biography, Mark Popovsky created a charming image of a working scientist whose research concerns the life and health of each of us.