Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (1874 - 1949), was a Russian statesman who became Peoples Commissar of Public Health in 1918 and served in that role until 1930 (1-4).
He was one of the organizers of the Health care system in the Soviet Union. Semashko was academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences since 1944 and of the RSFSR since 1945. In the year 1891, after graduating from the Yelets gymnasium (where he studied with Mikhail Prishvin), Semashko entered the Medical faculty of Moscow University.
Key words: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko
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