Yevgeniy Chazov

Yevgeniy Chazov
Евгений Чазов
Chazov in 2014
Minister of Health of the Soviet Union
In office
17 February 1987  29 March 1990
PremierNikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded bySergei Burenkov
Succeeded byIgor Denisov
Personal details
Born10 June 1929
Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died12 November 2021 (aged 92)
Moscow, Russia
NationalitySoviet/Russian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
Alma materKiev Medical Institute
AwardsOrder 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.