Background
KOST, Nikolay was born in 1883. Son of a merchant.
KOST, Nikolay was born in 1883. Son of a merchant.
1910 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
From 1904 member, Technical Group, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1905 took active part in Revol in Moscow. In same year imprisoned in Taganka Jail, after which he resumed revol work although under police surveillance.
After graduate worked as zemstvo health officer in Kostroma, Nizhniy Novgorod and Vladimir Provinces. In course of duties did research on living and working conditions of peasants, smallpox, intestinal infections, children's diseases, tuberculosis and syphilis rates, water supplies, et cetera 1914 drafted into Russian Army.
During 1917 October Revol member, MilRevol Committee and department chairman, Soviet of Soldiers’ Deputy, Southwestern Front. Deputy chairman, Kamenetsk-Podol’sk Soviet of Workers’ Deputy. Chairman, Zhitomir Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee.
Chairman, Zhitomir Soviet of Workers’ Deputy. December 1917 member, 1st Ukraine Centr Excc Committee. Fought against General Kornilov.
1918 Collegium member, Main Military Health Board, Council of Physicians’ Collegia. 1919-1920 acting Ukraine People's Commissar of Health. 1920-1924 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Health’s chief píen for Kuban’ and Black Sea health resorts.
1926-1933 excc secretary, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Red Cross and Red Crescent Social. 1927-1928 assistant professor, Chair of Social Hygiene, 2nd Moscow University. From 1928 head, sanitary unit, Donbas water prospecting and planning group.
Head, Water Hygiene and Sanitary Hydraulic Engineer Department, All-Union Institute of Communal Hygiene, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Health. Also worked for Main State Sanitary Inspectorate, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Health. 1941-1943 worked for All-Union State Sanitary Inspectorate, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Health.
Communist Party member from 1904.