[N.A. Semashko, the First People's Commissar of Health Care].

ABSTRACT

The article is devoted to 100th anniversary of organization of the Narkomzdrav of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic. The input of N.A. Semashko, the People's Commissar of Health Care, is presented concerning organization of the state central board of the national medical sanitary business, organization of the Soviet health care system and development of its major principles. The archive sources were involved to through light upon other aspects of activity of N.A. Semashko, including struggle with arrests of physicians during the Civil War, circumstances of his displacement from the position of People's Commissar of Health Care, work as a director of the Institute of health care organization and history of medicine.