Yevgeniy Chazov
Yevgeniy Chazov | |
|---|---|
Евгений Чазов | |
Chazov in 2014 | |
| Minister of Health of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 17 February 1987 – 29 March 1990 | |
| Premier | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| Preceded by | Sergei Burenkov |
| Succeeded by | Igor Denisov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 June 1929 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 12 November 2021 (aged 92) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Soviet/Russian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Kiev Medical Institute |
| Awards | Order of Lenin (1969, 1976, 1978, 1981) USSR State Prize (1975) Hero of Socialist Labour (1978) Lenin Prize (1982) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (2004, 2009, 2014, 2019) |
Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chazov (Russian: Евгений Иванович Чазов; 10 June 1929 – 12 November 2021) was a physician of the Soviet Union and Russia, specializing in cardiology, Chief of the Fourth Directorate of the ministry of health, academic of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a recipient of numerous awards and decorations, Soviet, Russian, and foreign.