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A.V. Molkov – the founder of hygiene of children and adolescents, manager of the training of medical and preventive personnel (to the 155th anniversary from his birth)

https://doi.org/10.47470/0016-9900-2025-104-3-372-377

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Abstract

Among the largest representatives of the Russian medical science, professor Alfred Vladislavovich Molkov, a prominent hygienist and health manager, honoured scientist, holds an honourable place. In 2025, the entire hygienic community will celebrate his 155th anniversary. The medical, scientific, and pedagogical activity of A.V. Molkov, which lasted for more than fifty years, was associated with the development of country council medicine, with the most important stages of the formation of soviet healthcare. There is no field of hygiene and public health in which the multifaceted talent of this great scientist has not manifested itself. Alfred Vladislavovich went down in the history of medicine and healthcare as a talented manager and expert in health education. About over two decades, he headed the work of the commission for the dissemination of hygienic knowledge of the society of Russian doctors in memory of N.I. Pirogov. A.V. Molkov was the founder of the creation of school hygiene. He formulated goals and objectives, identified the main ways of research and pedagogical work in this field, developed a methodology for teaching this scientific discipline. A.V. Molkov played an important role in the formation of the first departments of educational hygiene and writing the first Soviet manual on school hygiene, as well as in the formation of the school of Soviet hygienists. Until the end of his life, Alfred Vladislavovich remained devoted to the cause of preventive medicine. His words, written in 1940, are addressed to us as a testament: “It is impossible to prevent the occurrence of diseases without treating the sick, and it is impossible to know the importance of the environment for the human body without studying the latter... It is clear that there is no fundamental opposition between curative medicine and preventive medicine, but there is their unity with a well-known division of tasks and functions”.

About the Authors

Vladislav R. Kuchma
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University); Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman
Russian Federation

DSc (Medicine), professor, corresponding member of RAS, Supervisor of the Institute for Complex Hygiene Problems, Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman, Mytishchi, 141014, Russian Federation



Natalia L. Yamshchikova
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)
Russian Federation

PhD (Medicine), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Hygiene of Children and Adolescents, Institute of Public Health named after. F.F. Erisman, Sechenov University, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation

e-mail: yamshchikova_n_l@staff.sechenov.ru



Elena V. Naryshkina
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)
Russian Federation

PhD (Medicine), Associate Professor of the Department of Hygiene of Children and Adolescents at the F.F. Institute of Public Health. Erisman Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education, Sechenov University, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation



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Kuchma V.R., Yamshchikova N.L., Naryshkina E.V. A.V. Molkov – the founder of hygiene of children and adolescents, manager of the training of medical and preventive personnel (to the 155th anniversary from his birth). Hygiene and Sanitation. 2025;104(3):372-377. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.47470/0016-9900-2025-104-3-372-377. EDN: xvlcxc

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