М.Y. Chernichenko

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

The article investigates the problem of insufficient knowledge of the life and work of the first people’s commissar of health, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko. Documents from the collections of the Museum of the History of Medicine at the I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, shedding new light on the work of N.A. Semashko as the chief editor of the Great Medical Encyclopedia, the head of the Department of Health Organization at the 1st Moscow Order of Lenin Medical Institute during World War II, as well as his role in the development of Russian endocrinology.

Keywords: N.A. Semashko, Рeople’s Сommissariat of Health of the RSFSR, biography, historiography, 1st Moscow Medical Institute, Museum of the History of Medicine at the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, history of medicine