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.

Biography

Chazov was born in 1929. He was a graduate of the Kiev Medical Institute. Following his graduation he worked as a clinic surgeon, and later joined the research institute of therapy of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. He served as a managing director of the A. L. Myasnikov Research Institute. Chazov was the director of the Moscow cardiological center since 1976. It is one of the largest such centers in the world, comprising 10 separate institutes. As the chief of the fourth directorate of the Ministry of Health, which took care of Soviet leaders, he was widely regarded to be a person responsible for the health of the Soviet leadership, although he sometimes denied that he was their "personal physician". He was the deputy health minister and appointed minister of health in 1987. Chazov was a member of the central committee of the Communist Party.

In his book of memoirs, Health and Power he described many circumstances concerning the health of the Soviet leaders and of some leaders of the Soviet satellites.

Nobel Peace Prize

Yevgeniy Chazov was a co-founder and co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Charged with promoting research on the probable medical, psychological, and biospheric effects of nuclear war, the group was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1985. On the occasion of the award, Chazov gave the acceptance speech in Oslo. At that time the group represented more than 135,000 members from 41 countries. Many groups protested the decision to include Chazov, and alleged that Chazov was responsible for some of the Soviet abuses of psychiatry and medicine and for attacks against a 1975 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the physicist and Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov.

Personal life

Chazov was married three times. He had two daughters, Tatyana and Irina, from the first and second marriage, respectively.

Legacy

On 16 December 2022, a monument to the founder of "Kremlin medicine" - cardiologist Evgeny Chazov was erected on the territory of the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.

External links

• Media related to Yevgeniy Chazov at Wikimedia Commons
• Acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo (10 December 1985)
• Nobel Lecture (11 December 1985)
• Lown, Bernard (2008). Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-1-57675-482-5 – via Internet Archive.
• Works by or about Yevgeniy Chazov at the Internet Archive