Zdravko Mitsov ( Bulgarian Zdravko Vasilev Mitsov ) - a participant of the Great Patriotic War [1] , Lieutenant Colonel of the Red Army and Major General of the Bulgarian People's Army [2] , Hero of Socialist Labor of Bulgaria , Honored Doctor of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, MD, professor.
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| Scientific field | toxicology field surgery medical history |
| Alma mater | Military Medical Academy named after SM Kirov |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Academic title | Professor |
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Biography
Born in 1903 in Pleven [2] .
In 1917, as a student of the school, he began to participate in the distribution of the newspaper Rabotnicheski Vestnik (press organ of the Belarusian Social-Democratic Party (TSU) ) and by the end of September 1918 he realized himself as a supporter of the ideas of the Belarusian TDP (PS) [2] .
On December 15, 1918, on the instructions of the reserve officer of the Bulgarian army, a close socialist Vasil Karavaev, he created a youth unit of the Belarusian People's Democratic Party of Belarus (TSS) out of five people in Pleven (later became the city branch of the RMS ), participated in rallies and public work, for which he was excluded from the gymnasium as unreliable, but subsequently managed to recover and continued his studies [2] .
On May 25-27, 1919, he participated in the XXII Congress of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (TSU) (I Congress of the BKP), at which the Belarusian Peace Communist Party (TSU) was renamed the Bulgarian Communist Party of Close Socialists [2]
After graduating from high school in 1922, he continued his political activities - in June 1922, as a representative of the youth section of the Pleven Party organization, he participated in the 4th Congress of the BKP. In September 1922 he was elected secretary of the Pleven youth partnership named after George Kirkov [2] .
In January 1923, he organized the People’s University in Pleven [2] .
Member of the September uprising in 1923, after the suppression of which he moved to an illegal position. In February 1924 he was transferred to Yugoslavia, from where he was transferred to Vienna and became a courier of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the BKP. In 1924 he was admitted to the membership of the BKP [2] .
In June 1924, he was included in the BKP Party Assistance Group in the Austrian city of Graz , which conducted organizational, agitation and courier work, provided safe houses and documents for the illegal BCP route across the Austrian-Yugoslav border and carried out other secret assignments [2] .
On July 18, 1927, during a police check, the student cafeteria was detained by the Austrian police to check the documents, after which the party leadership decided to transport the mitzo to the USSR [2] .
In the autumn of 1927, he arrived in the USSR across the western border, settled in Moscow, and worked for the Central Committee of the Organization of the Defense of Russia [2] .
In May 1928 he moved from the BKP to the CPSU (b) [2] .
At the end of August 1928, by decision of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the BKP, it was sent for military training at the disposal of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR . In September 1929 he entered the Leningrad Military Medical Academy , after which he was appointed senior doctor in the naval aviation brigade in Sevastopol . Participated in the medical support of exercises and maneuvers, during the landing of the training of sea and airborne troops of the Red Army [2] .
In order to exchange experience and improve his qualifications as a military doctor, he traveled to the aviation school in Kutch , and also completed a three-month course in surgery at the surgical department of the naval hospital in Sevastopol. In addition, at this time he mastered the profession of an observer-pilot, learned how to control a motorboat and how to shoot a machine gun [2] .
In 1934 he was sent to the military medical academy for training in the direction of "toxicology" and in April 1935 he was enrolled in the adjuncture at the Department of Pathology and Therapy of Toxic Substances of the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad [2] .
May 20, 1941 he defended his thesis on the topic "Subcutaneous oxygen therapy in the hypoxemic state of the organism", after which he was sent on a business trip to participate in the medical support of the Red Army military exercises [2] .
After the beginning of World War II, he continued to work at the Military Medical Academy until mid-July 1941, when, in accordance with the order of the command of the Leningrad Front, he was sent to the main field evacuation center No. 93 with instructions to start the work of the evacuation center and military hospitals subordinate to it [2] .
The next day, Mitsov arrived at the location of the 20th Medical Battalion, east of Luga, and began to fulfill his duties in the front line between Pskov and Luga. He was engaged in medical support of troops, first on the Luga defensive line , then on the approaches to Leningrad. Participant of the defense of Leningrad in 1941 [2] .
On November 26, 1941, as part of a group of workers and students of the Military Medical Academy, was evacuated by plane to Novaya Ladoga , after 47 days of travel by road and rail, the group arrived in Samarkand (where the Military Medical Academy was located during the evacuation ) medical personnel for the army in the field [2] .
At the beginning of the summer of 1942, at the direction of the Central Military Medical Directorate of the Red Army, he was sent to Moscow, appointed senior inspector of the Central Military Medical Directorate of the Red Army and sent to Kaluga to work in the Army Base Hospital of the Western Front [2] .
He completed training courses for managers for heads of military departments at medical institutes, after which he was sent to Astrakhan - head of the military department at Astrakhan Medical Institute [2] .
In mid-September 1945 he received an order to serve at the disposal of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and after meeting with G. Dimitrov he was sent to Bulgaria [2] .
He arrived in Sofia on October 15, 1945, and from mid-November 1945 began training with medical doctors from the Sofia garrison on the organization of medical care. After the creation of the All-Arms Hygienic Institute, which was the scientific base of the medical service of the National Medical Academy, he was appointed its director. In 1950, by the decision of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the OVGI received a new name - the Research Military Medical Institute [2] .
In the position of head of the NIVMI remained until 1955, at the end of 1955 he began working at the military department of the medical faculty of the Sofia University , he was actively engaged in research work (during this period he published five textbooks and three separate volumes of scientific works of the Higher Military Medical Institute) [2 ] .
In 1963 he was appointed head of the department of radiation protection of the military medical institute [2] .
Since according to the Bulgarian legislation, professors had the right to work up to 65 years, after reaching the age limit in 1968, he was sent to retirement [2] .
Being on pensions, he continued to be engaged in organizational and scientific work (only in the period up to 1981 he wrote and published 3 monographs, 5 articles, read three scientific reports and held two scientific sessions) [2] .
He died in 1986.
Family
Wife and two children [2] [3] .
State awards
- Order of the Red Star [2]
- two medals "For Military Merit" [2]
- medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" [2]
- Hero of Socialist Labor (NRB) [2]
- Order "George Dimitrov"
Works
- Zdravko Mitsov. Military toxicology. Sofia, "Medicine and Physics", 1958 - 365 p. (Bolg.)
- Zdravko Mitsov. Pirogov. Sofia, "Medicine and Physical Education", 1971 - 80 p. (Bolg.)
- Z. V. Mitsov, A. S. Georgievsky. The medical community and military medicine in the War of Independence in the Balkans in 1877-1878. M., "Medicine", 1978 - 234 pp., Ill. (Rus.)
- Zdravko Mitsov. Illegal channel. Spomeni (1920-1945). Sofia, Partisdat, 1985. - 189 p. (Bolg.)
Notes
- ↑ Nikolay Belousov. Bulgarians - the soldiers of the Soviet armed forces // magazine "Bulgaria", № 11, 1978. p.10
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Professor, Major General Zdravko Mitzov. Heart to heart // Shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart. Memoirs of the Bulgarians - the fighters and commanders of the Red Army / Sat, comp. M. Kostadinova, I. Lalov. per. with bolg. M., Voenizdat, 1984. p.115-132
- ↑ Mitsova IZ. The history of one family (XX century. Bulgaria - Russia). - (XX century. Bulgaria - Russia). - Griffin, 2008. - 850 p. - ISBN 978-5-98862-049-5 .