The core of our team appeared in the 1980's when at the laboratory of the early embryogenesis under the guidance of the Professor Boris V. Leonov obstetrician-gynecologist Elena A. Kalinina and obstetrician-gynecologist, embryologist Valentin A. Lukin had worked. This famous laboratory gave birth not only to a thousands of test-tube babies but also to a whole galaxy of talented fertility specialists and embryologists, constituting today the backbone of the Russia's reproductology.