Nikolai Semashko (medicine)
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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 | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Vladimirsky |
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| Born | 20 September 1874 (1918–1949) |
Dr. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (
Life and career
Early life
Nikolai Semashko was born to a teacher in the village of Livenskoe in
In 1891, after graduating from the Yelets gymnasium (where he studied with
In 1906 he emigrated to Switzerland and lived in Geneva, where he met with Vladimir Lenin. In August 1907, Semashko served as a delegate from the Geneva Bolshevik organization at the International Socialist Congress of the Second International. The Swiss police arrested him after Olga (Sarra) Ravich, convicted in the case of the 1907 Tiflis expropriation, sent him a letter from prison.
In 1908, together with the Bolshevik foreign center, he moved to Paris, where until 1910 he worked as secretary of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP and participated in the Party School in Longjumeau (1911).
At the Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the RSDLP (1912) Semashko delivered a report on the insurance sector, consisting of a draft resolution which Lenin had edited and which the Conference adopted. In 1913 Semashko participated in the social-democratic movement in Serbia and in Bulgaria; at the beginning of World War I he was interned[by whom?]. Returning to Moscow in September 1917, he was elected chairman of the Bolshevik faction of the Pyatnitskaya district council. He was a delegate of the Sixth Party Congress, participated in the preparation of the armed insurrection in Moscow, and organized medical care for its participants.
Soviet statesman
After the
In 1921-1949 Semashko was a professor with the Chair of Social Hygiene in the medical faculty of
Later life
From 1930 to 1936, Semashko worked in the Central Executive Committee, where he served as a member of the Presidium and the chairman of the Commission for the Improvement of Children's Lives (formerly the Detkomissiya), which was entrusted with the fight against homelessness and the management of therapeutic and preventive work in children's health-facilities. In 1945-1949 he was Director of the Institute for School Health of the RSFSR, and at the same time (1947–49) of the Institute for Health and History of Medicine of the Academy of Medical Sciences (since 1965 the Research Institute of the Semashko Social Hygiene and Public Health Organization). He was a founder of the Central Medical Library (1918) and of the House of Scientists (1922) in Moscow, editor-in-chief of the Great Medical Encyclopedia (1927-1936), the first chairman of the Supreme Council for Physical Education and Sports (from 1923), chairman of the All-Union Hygiene Society (1940–49), and delegate to the 10th, 12th, and 16th Party Congresses. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and medals.
Semashko was married and had a daughter Helen (Russian: Елена Николаевна Семашко, 1908-1983, married name Farobina), who was for many years a responsible official of the Ministry of Health.
See also
External links
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko Archive Marxists Internet Archive
- Anna J. Haines, Dr. N. A. Semashko: The Commissar of Health
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