Nikolai Semashko (1874 - 1949) - a Soviet party and state leaders, one of the organizers of the health care system in the USSR, academician of the USSR. From July 1918 until 1930 he held the post of Commissar of Health of the RSFSR. Under the guidance of NA Semashko work was done to combat epidemics, laid the foundations of Soviet public health, established maternal and child care, health care for children and adolescents, a network of medical research institutions. In his later years he directed the Institute created the organization of health and medical history.