Boris Petrovsky

Boris Petrovsky
Борис Петровский
Petrovsky in 1984
Minister of Health
In office
September 1965 – 1980
PresidentLeonid Brezhnev
PremierAlexei Kosygin
Preceded bySergei Kurashov
Succeeded bySergei Burenkov
Personal details
BornBoris Vasilyevich Petrovsky
27 June 1908
Yessentuki, Russian Empire
Died4 May 2004(2004-05-04) (aged 95)
Moscow, Russia
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
PartyCommunist Party
SpouseYekaterina Timofeyeva
Parents
  • Vasily Petrovsky (father)
  • Lydia Petrovskaya (mother)
Alma materMoscow State University
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Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky (Russian: Борис Васильевич Петровский; 27 June 1908 – 4 May 2004) was a Soviet and Russian general surgeon who was the health minister of the Soviet Union in the period 1965–1980.

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