Eskin, Dmitry Afanasevich

Born on September 4, 1876 in Perm, in the family of the merchant Eskin, the former manager of the estate of the landowner Diaghilev - Athanasius Pavlovich and his wife - Alexandra Venediktovna; brother of N.A. Eskin .

In 1896 he graduated from the Perm Gymnasium and entered the Military Medical Academy in Petrograd . In 1897 he transferred to Kazan University , which he graduated in October 1903. While studying at the university, he specialized in the hospital surgery clinic of Professor Prokoyin, where he was left as a resident.

With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, as a military medic, he was drafted into the Russian Imperial Army and from March 1904 to December 1905 he served as a resident of the Simbirsk branch of the Red Cross, then was sent to the Far East in the army. At the end of the war, in 1905, he returned to Kazan to his former place of work to the same professor Prokoyin. From August to November 1908 he worked as a zemstvo doctor in the city of Osa , after which he was chosen by colleagues at the provincial Alexander Hospital in Perm . Since December 1908, having the rank of college assessor, Dmitry Eskin served as the resident of the surgical department of the Alexander Provincial Hospital. On August 31, 1912 he married (second marriage) to the daughter of Archpriest of the Perm Holy Trinity Church - Zinaida Evgenievna Budrina, who was 23 years old. May 17, 1914 D.A. Eskin at the conference of the Imperial Military Medical Academy was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine No. 7316724 .

With the outbreak of World War I, he was again mobilized in the RIA and on August 17, 1914, as part of the Red Cross infirmary for 200 beds, consisting of six classroom and two freight wagons, he was sent from Perm to the front. There he was appointed senior resident of the hospital and sent to the Western Front in the city of Siedlec . Then he was transferred to the Beloretsk mobile infirmary. He was captured, two weeks later he was released by Russian troops. He was appointed to the 219th Infantry Regiment of the 170th Infantry Division as the head doctor of the dressing squad. Later, he temporarily acted as chief physician of the 55th Infantry Division . Then he returned to Russia and until October 1917 he served as a doctor in Moscow.

After the October Revolution, he moved to Perm and entered the service of a senior resident in the 191st hospital, where he later became his senior doctor. He worked in the hospital until April 1918, when he was dismissed from service by the Bolsheviks. He moved to the head of the surgical department of the Perm Alexander Hospital, where in 1922 he was simultaneously the head of the X-ray room. He worked in the hospital and during the reign in the city of Kolchak's army. September 8, 1919 was arrested on a denunciation, but released for lack of evidence and value as a specialist. In 1920, D. A. Eskin was chosen as a teacher of the medical faculty of Perm University for the position of teacher and head of the department of operative surgery, where he worked until 1922.

In 1922, Eskin was offered the position of head of the Sarapul Surgical Hospital and he and his wife moved to Sarapul . On May 7, 1923, a search was made in Eskin’s apartment - Dmitry Afanasevich was arrested and transferred to Perm, where he was placed in Pokhoddom No. 1. On June 7, the Perm GPU decided to imprison him in a concentration camp in Arkhangelsk for three years, but on July 12 in Moscow the NKVD commission determined to subject Eskin to administrative expulsion to Turkestan for the same period. On August 3, 1923, he was expelled from Perm to Aktyubinsk for two years. ^[2] Further, the trail of D. A. Eskin is lost, but there is evidence that in 1936 he worked as a surgeon in a railway hospital in the city of Syzran . ^[one]

The RGIA has documents related to D. A. Eskin. ^[3]

• Eskin Dmitry Afanasevich
• POLITICAL REPRESSIONS IN THE KAMA REGION 1918-1980s