Background
Akim (Ioakim) Alekseevich Charukovsky was born in 1798 in Pologi, Pereyaslavsky district, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Father, grandfather, and great-grandfather came from nobles and were priests.
Chernigov Theological Seminary
the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy
Akim (Ioakim) Alekseevich Charukovsky was born in 1798 in Pologi, Pereyaslavsky district, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Father, grandfather, and great-grandfather came from nobles and were priests.
Akim Alekseevich graduated from the Chernigov Theological Seminary, the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy in 1820 with a silver medal.
Since 1820, Akim Alekseevich was a military doctor. He was appointed a doctor in the Grenadier Count Arakcheev regiment, then transferred to the Jaeger Life Guards Regiment. As part of the Jaeger regiment, he participated in the Russian-Turkish war in 1828-1829 and in the Polish campaign in 1830-1831.
In 1837, Akim Alekseevich was appointed head of the department in the Medical Department of the Interior Ministry. Since 1845, he was a senior doctor at the Mikhailovsky Voronezh Cadet Corps and the Voronezh Battalion of military cantonists, promoted to state councilor. He actively collaborated in the Military Medical Journal and the medical newspaper Friend of Health, where he posted articles on clinical and hygienic topics.