[2] He fought in the Great Patriotic War and managed to build a career in the army from the rank of a soldier of 32nd Combat Engineer Battalion to the head of the chemical laboratory of the 1st Far Eastern Front.

One more interest was the research of chemical reagents called pyrazolones, and the possibilities for their implementation.

[4] Zhivopistsev was an initiator and the first scientific director of the laboratory of organic reagents which was opened in January 1973 at the Department of Analytical Chemistry.

Through the initiative of a rector Zhivopistsev, the Museum of the History of the Perm University was established (Order No.

During the 17 years of his work as a rector (1970–1987), the university's educational, scientific and production areas facilities had more than doubled.

10), and four student dormitories (№ 2, 5, 6, 7), a ski base, a canteen with 530 seats (today it is the building No.