Background
VINOKUROV, Aleksandr was born on August 31, 1869 in Yekaterinoslav. Son of a civil servant.
VINOKUROV, Aleksandr was born on August 31, 1869 in Yekaterinoslav. Son of a civil servant.
1888 graduate high-school. 1894 graduate Med Faculty, Moscow University.
Joined revol movement while still a student. Together with S. I. Mitskevich, organized Marxist group in Moscow. Provided apartment for meetings attended by Lenin.
Frequently arrested and exiled to Siberia. 1905-1907 did revol work in Yekaterinoslav, Moscow and St. Petersburg. While working as a health officer maintained contacts with Bilshevik faction in 4th Duma, took part in Workers’ Insurance Movement and spoke at congresses held by factory physicians.
Using the pseudonyms “Viv” and “Vrach”, helped to write Bolshevik leaflets and pamphlets demanding state insurance for workers. On Lenin’s instructions, used hospital funds for political work. Ed, Bolshevik journal “Voprosy strakhovaniya”.
After 1917 February Revol continued insurance work. Opposed Mensheviks at 1st and 2nd Insurance Conferences and critized insurance law proclaimed by Provisional Government. After 1917 October Revol helped to organize Soviet health service.
Member, Med Collegium, Main Military Health Board. Chairman, Council of Physicians'Collegia. 1918-1921 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People’s Commissar of Social Security.
1921-1924 worked on Famine Commission. 1922-1924 chairman, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Count. 1924-1938 chairman, USSR Supreme Court.
From 1939 until death head, Sanitary Education Department, USSR People’s Commissariat of Health. During World War 2 did ed and political work in Med Publ House. Wrote numerous articles on the October Revol and soc insurance.
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.
Communist Party member from 1893.