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Boris Petrovsky

Russian surgeon (1908-2004) · Russia · On the map · Doctors · Died at 95

Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky was a Soviet and Russian general surgeon who was the health minister of the Soviet Union in the period 1965-1980.

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2004Died4 May 20042003Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-CalledAward1998Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd classAward1993Order of Friendship of PeoplesAward1979Order of FriendshipAward1975Léon Bernard Foundation PrizeAward1972Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsAward1908Born14 June 1908

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Awards

Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called2003
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class1998
Order of Friendship of Peoples1993
Order of Friendship1979
Léon Bernard Foundation Prize1975
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons1972
USSR State Prize
Zhukov Medal
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of the Red Star
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Lenin Prize
Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Order of Lenin
Prizvanie Prize
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic
Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary
Medal of Friendship
Honored Scientist of the Azerbaijan SSR

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 2004 · aged 95

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