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Nikolai Semashko | |
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Николай Семашко | |
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| 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 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 September 1874 Yeletsky Uyezd, Russian Empire (present day Yelets) |
| Died | 18 May 1949 (aged 74) Moscow, SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
| Nationality | |
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Communist Party (1918–1949) |
Dr. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Сема́шко; 20 September [O.S. 8 September] 1874 – 18 May 1949), was a revolutionary, Soviet 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 Semashko system), an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian SFSR (1945).