Open AccessMariya Dmitrievna Kovrigina (1910–1995) — a prominent organizer and head of Soviet healthcare
Author(s) -
С. Г. Гончарова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
zdravoohranenie rossijskoj federacii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-0723
pISSN - 0044-197X
DOI - 10.47470/0044-197x-2021-65-6-594-597
Subject(s) - christian ministry , biography , political science , health care , world war ii , economic history , period (music) , management , history , law , art , economics , aesthetics
The article is dedicated to Mariya Dmitrievna Kovrigina. She was a prominent organizer of Soviet healthcare, the Honoured physician of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). During the Great Patriotic war and the post-war period M.D. Kovrigina for 17 years held many leading posts of Deputy Minister and Minister in the apparatus of Ministry of Healthcare of the RSFSR and USSR (1942-1959). Then for 27 years, she worked as the rector of the Central institute for Advanced Training of Physicians (1959-1986). The article provides some little-known facts from the biography of M.D. Kovrigina, which allows showing her contribution to the development of Soviet healthcare, as an experienced and professional organizer and as person sincerely sick soul for the work entrusted to her.