Monument to Academician Semashko
A monument to Academician Semashko was opened in Dnepropetrovsk in 1977. Located away from the city center, on the street spondylitis, in the district of the Dnipropetrovsk regional psychiatric hospital.
The composition of the monument
The monument is made of granite. He wore a well-known physician looks into the distance, the right hand is on his heart, left it as it rests on a pedestal. On the shoulders of a coat thrown over academician. The pedestal is decorated with an inscription. The authors are well-known compositions Dnepropetrovsk sculptor and architect V. Nebozhenko B. Set.
Who is Semashko
Nikolai Semashko known Soviet statesman. He was one of the organizers of the health care system in the USSR. Born in September 1874 in the Oryol province.
For a long time from 1918 to 1930, he held an important post - Commissar of Health of the RSFSR. Under his leadership, virtually it laid the Soviet health care system, spent a lot of work to combat epidemics, created a system of health care to mothers and children involved in the health of children and adolescents, opened a network of medical research institutions throughout the Soviet Union.
In 1918, he initiated in the creation of the Central Medical Library in Moscow, and in 1922 - the House of Scientists.
Nikolai Semashko made the chief editor of "Great Medical Encyclopedia," he was the first in the history of the Chairman of the Supreme Council for Physical Culture and Sports. He was awarded a variety of awards and medals.
How to get to the monument Semashko in Dnepropetrovsk
The monument is located in the Samara region of Dnipropetrovsk, in the district of the Dnipropetrovsk regional psychiatric hospitals, residential area Igren. You can get there by public transportation (taxi) which go from Dnepropetrovsk main train station and Ostrovsky Square.
This is not the only monument to Academician Semashko in Dnepropetrovsk. Also, a bust of the famous physician alley set to outstanding scientists of the Dnepropetrovsk Medical Academy.
