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... End of the 1950's and early 1960's while significant strides in the field of scientific experiments around the world and the USSR. In those years, began the bold experiments of Soviet scientists on animals. At the Moscow University and the Academy of Sciences have performed a number of pioneering research. And already in 1950, Russian scientist Vladimir Demikhov surprised the world when transplanted a dog's head on another dog. Two-headed dog lived for a month.