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Nikolai Semashko

1874 - 1949

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Dr. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Сема́шко; 26 September [O.S. 14 September] 1874 – 18 May 1949), was a revolutionary, Soviet statesman, medical doctor 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 Semashko system), an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian SFSR (1945). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Semashko is the 585th most popular physician (down from 521st in 2019), the 1,743rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,534th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Nikolai Semashko ranks 585 out of 726. Before him are Patrick Steptoe, Albrecht von Graefe, Nikolay Burdenko, Andrea Andreen, James Paget, and William Stokes. After him are Oskar Vogt, Gregorio Marañón, Kamal Ranadive, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Oswaldo Cruz, and Kenneth H. Cooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Nikolai Semashko ranks 186. Before him are Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Charles William Miller, José de Amézola y Aspizúa, Steve Bloomer, Jan Černý, and Hjalmar Johansson. After him are Adolf Brand, Conrad Magnusson, Mary Garden, Charles A. Beard, Grantley Goulding, and Honus Wagner. Among people deceased in 1949, Nikolai Semashko ranks 139. Before him are Valerio Bacigalupo, Stoyan Danev, Elin Wägner, Aldo Ballarin, Nora Gregor, and Lou Tseng-Tsiang. After him are Sevasti Qiriazi, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Ezio Loik, Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols, Birbal Sahni, and Paul Chocque.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Semashko ranks 1,743 out of 3,761. Before him are Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868), Oleg Atkov (1949), Gennady Khazanov (1945), Abdul-Halim Sadulayev (1966), Boris Shilkov (1927), and Alexander Belov (1951). After him are Leonid Filatov (1946), Anatoly Kvashnin (1946), Yuri Vizbor (1934), Igor Severyanin (1887), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), and Nikolai Kamanin (1908).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Russia

Among physicians born in Russia, Nikolai Semashko ranks 10. Before him are Eugene Botkin (1865), Vladimir Filatov (1875), Nadezhda Suslova (1843), Arkady Vorobyov (1924), Sergey Botkin (1832), and Nikolay Burdenko (1876). After him are Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), Peter Lesgaft (1837), Maria Vorontsova (1985), and Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov (1875).

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