Divvrach Solovyov Zinovy Petrovich – first head of the Main Military Sanitary Directorate of the Red Army (For the 150th anniversary of his birth)

Zinovy Petrovich Solovyov is an outstanding organizer of Soviet healthcare. Much has been said about Solovyov as an organizer of healthcare, as the founding father of the Artek pioneer camp, as a Bolshevik revolutionary, as a member of the Russian Red Cross Society (ROCC), as the head of the Department of Social Hygiene at the 2nd Moscow State University Medical Faculty, as an epidemiologist at the provincial Zemstvo the councils. However, the article will discuss him as a divisional doctor and his activities as head of the Main Military Sanitary Directorate of the Red Army in the period from 1920 to 1928.

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