Ministry of Health (Soviet Union)
Министерство здравоохранения СССР Ministerstvo zdravookhraneniya SSSR | |
RSFSR , Soviet Union |
The Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Министерство здравоохранения СССР), formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. It was formerly (until 1946) known as the People's Commissariat for Health (Народный комиссариат здравоохранения). The Ministry, at the all-Union level, was established on 6 July 1923, after the signing of the
Duties and responsibilities
The main duties of the ministry were to develop and to prepare these for legislation and to maintain a decent level of health organisation in the USSR. The ministry missariat monitored and supervised the application of standards and measures to improve Soviet health care. According to the July 1936 decree establishing the People's Commissariat for Health, the commissariat had control over all financial assets related or linked to health care. As such, the ministry controlled all financial functions regarding health. It coordinated medical personnel all over the country, but also local council deputies.[1] MOH was obliged to take active measures against deficiencies in the health care system, and to further develop and implement measures to improve it.[2]
The MOH, with the help of other ministries and Soviet institutions, was responsible for the construction of new medical institutions around the country. Maintenance of hospital and other medical institutions were carried out by the MOH and the
The competence of the MOH within the
Organisation
The Ministry of Health was an
History
A July 1936
Commissars and ministers
The following persons headed the Commissariat/Ministry as commissars (narkoms), ministers, and deputy ministers of the Soviet time:
Name | Took office | Left office | Duration |
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People's Commissar for Health of the RSFSR and USSR | |||
Nikolai Semashko | 18 July 1918 | 26 January 1930 | 11 years, 192 days |
Mikhail Vladimirsky | 26 January 1930 | 15 February 1934 | 4 years, 20 days |
Grigory Kaminsky | 15 February 1934 | 26 June 1937 | 3 years, 131 days |
Mikhail Boldyrev | 2 August 1937 | 16 July 1938 | 348 days |
Georgy Miterev | 8 September 1939 | 15 March 1946 | 6 years, 188 days |
Minister of Health of the USSR | |||
Georgy Miterev | 19 March 1946 | 17 February 1947 | 335 days |
Yefim Smirnov | 17 February 1947 | 9 December 1952 | 5 years, 296 days |
Andrey Tretyakov | 27 January 1953 | 1 March 1954 | 1 year, 33 days |
Maria Kovrigina | 1 March 1954 | 12 January 1959 | 4 years, 317 days |
Sergei Kurashov | 12 January 1959 | 27 August 1965 | 6 years, 227 days |
Boris Petrovsky | 8 September 1965 | 12 December 1980 | 15 years, 95 days |
Sergei Burenkov | 12 December 1980 | 26 December 1986 | 6 years, 14 days |
Yevgeniy Chazov | 17 February 1987 | 29 March 1990 | 3 years, 40 days |
Igor Denisov |
18 April 1990 | 26 November 1991 | 1 year, 222 days |
See also
- Council of Ministers) – Ministries
- Ministry of Medical Industry
References
- ^ a b Sorokina, Tatyana. История медицины [History of Medicine] (in Russian). bibliotekar.ru. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ Great Soviet Encyclopaedia(in Russian). Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ^ The State University of Management. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ISBN 0-7923-2359-9.
- ISBN 0-521-81503-7.
- Great Soviet Encyclopaedia(in Russian). Retrieved 25 October 2010.