Background
KURASHOV, Sergey was born in 1910.
KURASHOV, Sergey was born in 1910.
1931 graduate Med Faculty, Kazan’ University.
1929-1931 medical orderly. 1931-1941 intern, assistant professor, then associate professor, Psychiatric Clinic, Kazan’ Med Institute, where he defended his candidate thesis. Simultaneously held admin posts in Tatar People’s Commissariat of Health.
1935-1936 chief physician, Kazan’ Clinical Hospital. 1936-1941 chief physician, Kazan’ Psychiatric Hospital. 1941-1942 director, Kazan’ Med Institute.
1942-1946 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Deputy People’s Commissar of Health. 1946-1951 Collegium member and head, Main Health Resort and Sanatorium Board, USSR Ministry of Health. 1950-1953 deputy director, Centr Institute of Postgraduate Med Training, Moscow.
1953-1955 head, Main Board of Training Establishments, USSR Ministry of Health and USSR Deputy Min of Health. 1954-1961 chief ed, journal Zdorov’ye. 1955-1965 head, Chair of Health Service Org, 1st Moscow Med Institute.
1959-1965 USSR Ministry of Health. 1961-1965 candidate member, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1955 and 1959 convocations.
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1958 and 1962 convocations. 1954 led Soviet medical deleg to England. 1957 attended International Congress on Social Med, Vienna.
1959 attended 4th Congress of Ministers of Health of the Socialist Countries, Sofia. 1960 led Soviet medical deleg to Cambodia, Norway and Sweden. Lectured at Carolinian Hospital, Stockholm.
1960 also led deleg to 13th World Health Assembly, Geneva. 1961 led deleg to 14th World Health Assembly, Delhi and attended Congress of Ministers of Health of the Socialist Countries, Budapest. 1962 chairman, 15th World Health Assembly, Geneva.
Ed, section on health service organisation, Bol’sliaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed). Member, ed council, Zhumal nevropato- logii i psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova. The Kazan’Med Institute now bears his name.
Member, Communist Party, since 1938.
Member, Communist Party, since 1938.