Background
Gennady Rumyantsev was born on March 31, 1928.
Gennady Rumyantsev was born on March 31, 1928.
Gennady Rumyantsev graduated from secondary school and in 1946 entered the sanitary-hygienic faculty of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenov. In 1952-1955 Gennady Ivanovich – postgraduate student of the Department of Occupational Hygiene of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenov.
After graduation from the postgraduate course and successful defense of the master’s thesis devoted to occupational health in the production of barium compounds, G.I. Rumyantsev first becomes a junior research assistant, and since 1956 – a senior researcher at the Moscow Institute of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman. In 1966, Gennady Ivanovich successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the effect of general vibration on the body of workers in the production of precast reinforced concrete. In the same year he was elected to the post of head of the department of general hygiene of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenov, whom he successfully leads to the present. In 1969, he was awarded the academic title of professor in the specialty of "general hygiene".
For almost 20 years, Gennady Ivanovich Rumyantsev was dean of the Sanitary and Hygienic Faculty. In 1996, for his great contribution to the development of hygienic science and medical ecology, he was awarded the V. A. Ryazanov.
Head of the editorial department of the Large Medical Encyclopedia, chairman of the Central Problem Training and Methodological Commission for Hygiene of the Russian Ministry of Health, Deputy Academician- secretary of the Department of Preventive Medicine, RAMS. For many years he is the chairman of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia.
In 1984 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Gennady Ivanovich Rumyantsev was elected a full member of the International Academy of Sciences, International Academy of Sciencies of Eurasia. He is a member of the presidium of the all Russian Scientific Society of Hygienists and Sanitarity Physicians.