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Central Institute of Occupational Health and Diseases named after V.A. Obukh of the USSR People's Commissariat of Health during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945
https://doi.org/10.31089/1026-9428-2025-65-5-288-293
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Abstract
The article presents materials on the activities of employees of the V.A. Obukh Central Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases of the USSR People's Commissariat of Health (currently Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health) during the Great Patriotic War, the role of occupational hygienists and occupational pathologists in developing issues of improving medical and sanitary services in the rear and in the army at the front.
About the Author
Igor V. Bukhtiyarov
Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health, 31, Budyonnogo Ave; Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Director, Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. of Sci. (Med.), Professor.
e-mail: bukhtiyarov@irioh.ru
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Bukhtiyarov I.V. Central Institute of Occupational Health and Diseases named after V.A. Obukh of the USSR People's Commissariat of Health during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology. 2025;65(5):288-293. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31089/1026-9428-2025-65-5-288-293. EDN: nnayfx
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