Ignatiy Nikolaevich Kazakov ( 1891 , p. Tvarditsa, Bendery County, Bessarabia Province - March 15, 1938 , Moscow Region) - Soviet doctor and medical scientist, director of the State Research Institute of Metabolism and Endocrine Disorders of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR.
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| Date of Birth | 1891 |
| Place of Birth | with. Tvarditsa , Bendery County , Bessarabian Province , the Russian Empire now Taraclia District , Moldova |
| Date of death | March 15, 1938 |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| A country |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Scientific field | the medicine |
| Place of work | State Research Institute of Metabolism and Endocrine Disorders of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR |
From the Bulgarian family. Developed the theory and practice of "lysatherapy" as a technique for rejuvenating the body. Treated high-ranking party and Soviet workers.
Arrested on December 14, 1937 on charges of participating in a counter-revolutionary anti-Soviet organization. March 13, 1938 during the process of the anti-Soviet "right-Trotsky bloc" ( Third Moscow trial ) was sentenced to capital punishment and March 15 was shot and buried at the Kommunarka testing ground (Moscow region). Rehabilitated February 4, 1988 .
Kazakov and two other medical defendants, Lev Levin and Dmitry Pletnev , were charged with the killing of OGPU chairman Vyacheslav Menzhinsky , chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy Valerian Kuybyshev and writer Maxim Gorky by order of Heinrich Yagoda .
From the memoirs of the wife of Gronsky : “Kazakov was arrested. Ivan had a major conversation with Stalin about the release of Ignatiy Nikolayevich. Ivan spoke sharply with Stalin. He called Molotov , Mikoyan , and Kalinin - he did not achieve the result. Kazakov was given twenty years of imprisonment ” [1] .