Yevgeniy Chazov
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Chazov (b. October 6, 1929) (Russian: Евгений Иванович Чазов) is a prominent physician of the Soviet Union and Russia, specializing in cardiology, Director of the fourth department of ministry of health of the Soviet Union, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a recipient of numerous awards and decorations, Soviet, Russian, and foreign.
As the director of the fourth department of the soviet ministry of health, which took care of soviet leaders, he is widely regarded to be a person responsible for the health of the Soviet leadership, althouh he sometimes denied that he was their "personal physician".[1]
In his book of memoirs, Health and Power[2] he describes many circumstances concerning the health of the Soviet leaders and of some leaders of the Soviet satellites.
Yevgeny Chazov was a member of the organization – International Physicians for the Prevention of War. Charged with promoting research on the medical, psychological, and biospheric effects that a nuclear war would have, the group was awarded the Nobel Peace prize and on December 10, 1985. O the occasion of the award, Chazov gave the acceptance speech in Oslo. At that time the group represented more than 135000 members from 41 countries.
Chazov was director of the Moscow Cardiological Center from 1976. At its time, it was one of the largest such centers in the world, comprising 10 separate institutes.
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- ^ "Visiting Soviet Doctor Changes His Statement", New York Times, February 10, 1985
- ^ E. Chazov, "Health and Power: Memoirs of the 'Kremlin Doctor'" ("Zdorovye i vlast. Vospominaniya ‘kremlyovskogo vracha'"), Moscow: Novosti (1992)
