Background
OBUKH, Vladimir was born on April 6, 1870 in Vitebsk Province. Son of an agronomist.
OBUKH, Vladimir was born on April 6, 1870 in Vitebsk Province. Son of an agronomist.
1894 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1901 graduate Medical Faculty, Kiev University.
Exiled from Saint St. Petersburg for involvement in Lenin’s League for the Liberation of the Working Class. Moved to Kiev, where he continued his studies and revol activities. 1901-1904 worked as a physician at various Moscow Hospitals.
1901-1904 member, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1904, after several months in prison, exiled to Vitebsk Province. 1905 returned to Moscow illegally and took part in Revol.
Member, Literature and Lecture Group, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party comt. 1905-1917 worked at 1st Moscow City Hospital. Simultaneously member, underground Bolshevik Center.
1917 took active part in February and October Revol. After advent of Soviet rule helped to organize public health service. From 1918 attended Lenin and his family.
1918-1929 member and Presidium member, Moscow City Soviet and head, Moscow Health Department. Organized public dispensaries (early diagnosis and treatment centers), night sanatoria, dietetic restaurants, et cetera 1923 founded Moscow Institute of Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases.
1929-1931 head Chair of Social Hygiene, 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. The Moscow street where the Institute of Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases is located bears his name.
Religious moral codes pervert people outside their group as less moral. Thus, religion is socially divisive and its effect is harmful for society.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.
Personal physician to Lenin, Communist Party member from 1894.