In 1870 Viktor Pashutin was awarded with the degree of Doctor of Medicine for the thesis titled "Some experiments on the enzymes that turn starch into glucose and cane sugar".

He also attended the lectures of Friedrich von Recklinghausen on general pathology and of Felix Hoppe-Seyler on medicinal chemistry in Strasbourg.

Since 1879 he headed the newly established Department of General and Experimental Pathology of the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg, moulded by him into a center of national pathophysiologic school.

From 1890 to 1901 Professor Pashutin served as head of the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg.

Professor Pashutin's principal works are dedicated to disturbances of metabolism and thermoregulation, oxygen starvation and vitamin deficiency.