Background
ALEKSANDROV, Vasiliy was born in 1877.
ALEKSANDROV, Vasiliy was born in 1877.
1901 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
1901-1914 intern, then assistant. Faculty Therapy Clinic, Moscow University. 1918-1920 head, balneology sub-department.
Department of Health Resorts, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Health. 1921-1925 director, health resort clinic in Moscow. From 1925 professor and head
Department for Study of Spa Resources, Centr Institute of Spa Treatment, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Minister of Health. Propagated extra-spa pelotherapy and demonstrated its efficacy. Proposed original classification of resort factors - mineral waters and muds - which won international recognition.
Headed expeditions to study spa resources which resulted in development of new spas. 1933 responsible for opening of resort at Bayram-Ali in Turkm Soviet Socialist Republic for climatic therapy of kidney disorders. Editor, journal Voprosy kurortologii.
Member, editorial board, manual Osnovy kurortologii (Principles of Spa Treatment) 3 volume, 1932-1936). Various monographs and theses on spa treatment published under his supervision. Member, editorial board, journal Voprosy kurortologii, fizioterapii i lechebnoy fizkul’tury.
Chairman, Spa Council, Main Board for Spas and Sanitariums, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Minister of Health.
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.