Nikolai Semashko (medicine)
Nikolai Semashko | |
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Николай Семашко | |
Semashko in 1922 | |
| People's Commissar of Health of the Russian SFSR | |
| In office 18 July 1918 – 25 January 1930 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Vladimirsky |
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| Born | 26 September 1874 Livenskaya, Russian Empire |
| Died | 18 May 1949 (aged 74) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
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| Alma mater | Kazan University |
| Occupation | Physician |
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Сема́шко; 26 September [O.S. 14 September] 1874 – 18 May 1949) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet bureaucrat and physician who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union (often called the Semashko system), an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian SFSR (1945).