Background
Pavel Kuzmich Beletsky was born on May, 29 (O.S. May, 17) in Stavropol in a family of a non-commissioned officer and a former serf peasant.
1910
Pavel Kuzmich Beletsky
1900
Pavel Kuzmich Beletsky
ethnographer journalist traveler writer
Pavel Kuzmich Beletsky was born on May, 29 (O.S. May, 17) in Stavropol in a family of a non-commissioned officer and a former serf peasant.
Until 1882 Pavel Kuzmich studied in the Stavropol Specialized School. In 1887 he graduated from the Tiflis Military Paramedic School.
Pavel Kuzmich served as a medical assistant in the Grozny Military Hospital, in Stavropol, the village of Nevinnomysskaya, in the city of Georgievsk. In 1890, he retired from military service but continued to work as a community health worker in the Stavropol province.
In 1897 Pavel Kuzmich moved to Saint Petersburg. While working as a medical assistant at the factory "Molot", he began a professional journalist career. In the magazines "Narod", "Nedelya", "Novosti" and "Russkiy trud" he published articles, in which he raised topical issues of hygiene and sanitation, remuneration of labor and working conditions of the labor force at Saint Petersburg manufacturing enterprises.
In May 1898, Pavel Kuzmich joined the geological expedition of Ya. A. Makeerov to Eastern Siberia as a medical assistant and spent two years in the Daurian taiga. After that, he returned to Petersburg and published articles in the "Birzhevyie Vedomosti" - "Obozrenii Peterburga", "Slovo". For material reasons, in 1903 he moved to Grozny. In 1904 he again left for Transbaikalia.
In 1910–1911 Pavel Kuzmich worked as a paramedic on the Amur Railway. In 1912 he traveled to the Far East of Russia. In the Soviet period of his life, he worked in health authorities, and was published in the newspapers "Vlast Sovetov" (Stavropol) and "Krasny Dagestan".
Pavel Kuzmich died on March 19, 1934.
