Mikhail Ruvimovich Borok ( 1881 - 1951 ) - Russian and Soviet physician-TB specialist, doctor of medical sciences (1939), professor .
| Borok Mikhail Ruvimovich | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1881 |
| Place of Birth | Kreslavka , Dinaburg County Vitebsk province , Russian empire |
| Date of death | 1951 |
| Place of death | Leningrad , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Occupation | TB doctor |
Biography
Born in 1881 in the city of Kreslavka, Dinaburg district, Vitebsk province.
Educated at the Faculty of Medicine of Kazan University and in Germany.
He was a member of the Bund . During the First World War he served as a military doctor in the Russian army, then in the Red Army. After demobilization, he worked in Moscow as a doctor.
Then Borok was appointed director of the Research Institute of Tuberculosis created in 1923 in Leningrad.
After the death of Professor A. Ya. Sternberg, he headed the Department of Phthisiology at the SEI DPO SPb MAPO and led it for 22 years (1928-1950).
In 1941-1945 he worked in Leningrad hospitals.
He died in 1951 . He was buried at the Transfiguration of the Jewish cemetery in Leningrad . [1] [2]
Next to him, Borok Vitaliy Mikhailovich (1926-2007) was buried. [3]
Notes
- ↑ Burials in the Jewish (Preobrazhensky) cemetery (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 8, 2013. Archived on August 27, 2017.
- ↑ Jewish cemetery
- ↑ Borok Mikhail Ruvimovich