Background
LETAVET, Avgust was born in 1893.
LETAVET, Avgust was born in 1893.
1917 graduated Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
Specialist in labor hygiene. 1945-1950 corresponding member, USSR Academy of Medical Science. Deputy Chairman, All-Union Society of Hygienists.
Editor, journal ‘‘Gigiena truda i professionalnye zabolevaniya” (Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases). Member, Editor Council, journal “Gigiena i sanitariya” (Hygiene and Sanitation). Со-Editor, “Hygiene” section, “Bolshaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition.
Since 1957 member and since 1960 V.-President, Permanent Committee, International Association, for Occupational Medicine. 1957 attended International Congress on Labor Medicine, Helsinki, and Congress for the Study of the Effects of Living and Working Conditions on the Health of People, Cannes. 1958 attended Conference of Minister of Public Health of Socialist Countries, Prague.
1959 attended Session of Internet. Labor Organization, Geneva. 1960 presented 3 papers at International Congress on Occupational Medicine, New York.
1961 directed Symposium of Scientists of the USSR and Socialist Countries on Labor Hygiene in Work with Radioactive Substances and Sources of Ionizing Radiation, Moscow. His research deals with: effects of industrial meteorological conditions on the body. Radiation heat exchange between man and his environment.
Labor hygiene in work with radioactive substances and radiation. Prophylactic measures against silicosis and radiation sickness. Hygiene standards used in the planning of industrial enterprises.
1919-1925 public health inspector, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Popular Commissariat of Labor. 1924-1931 senior Assistant, Chair of Labor Hygiene, 2nd Moscow Medicine Institute. 1925-1927 senior Assistant, Chair of Labor Hygiene, Central Institute of Labor Protection.
1927-1935 Head, Hygiene Section, Central Institute of Labor Hygiene and Industry Sanitation, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Popular Commissariat of Health. 1931-1955 Head, Chair of Industry Hygiene, Central Postgraduate Medicine Institute, Moscow. 1935-1948 Head, Laboratory for Industry Microclimate, Central Institute of Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, USSR Academy of Medical Science.
1957-1960 Academy Secretary,Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Epidemiology, USSR Academy of Medical Science.