Nikolai Semashko (medicine)

Dr. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Сема́шко) (September 20 [O.S. September 8] 1874 – May 18, 1949), was a Soviet Russian revolutionary, statesman and academic 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 ), an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian SFSR (1945).

Nikolai Semashko (medicine)

Dr. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Сема́шко) (September 20 [O.S. September 8] 1874 – May 18, 1949), was a Soviet Russian revolutionary, statesman and academic 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 ), an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian SFSR (1945).