Molkov, Alfred Vladislavovich

MOLKOV, Alfred Vladislavovich (born 1870), social hygienist, professor of the Department of Hygiene of Upbringing, member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). After graduating from Moscow University in 1895–1896, he worked for 7 years as a sanitary physician for the sanitary bureau of the Moscow Provincial Zemstvo, and from 1903 to 1917 as a sanitary physician for the Vereya, Zvenigorod, and Moscow uyezds. He took

an active part in the activities of the Pirogov Society as a board member and co-editor of the journal "Obshchestvenny Vrach" (Public Physician). From 1900, he served continuously as chairman of the Pirogov Commission for the Dissemination of Hygienic Knowledge until its affairs were transferred to the People's Commissariat of Health in 1919; during these 19 years, Molkov did a great deal for the cause of sanitary education, conducting versatile work in the commission on the publication of popular literature, visual aids, and other materials. He participated in the creation of the Russian pavilion at the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911, in the organization of the All-Russian Hygiene Exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1913, and in the creation of the Soviet pavilion at the International Hygiene

Exhibition in Dresden in 1930. Since 1919, he has worked at the People's Commissariat of Health as director of the Museum of Social Hygiene, which was transformed in 1923 into the Institute of Social Hygiene. He remained at the head of the latter until 1931. From 1922, he took an active part in the creation of the Department of Social Hygiene at the 1st Moscow State University as an assistant to the department. Since 1924, he has occupied the newly established independent Department of Hygiene of Upbringing, of which he is the founder. He is one of the initiators and leaders of the Bureau of Preventive Departments. Molkov worked extensively during these years on the reform of medical education and the introduction of active teaching methods. He has over 70 printed works on various issues of social hygiene. Among Molkov's pre-revolutionary works, the following should be noted: a comprehensive study of the sanitary condition of the Zvenigorod Uyezd of the Moscow Province (a series of articles and brochures, 1904–1914), articles on the sanitary protection of rivers feeding the Moscow water supply, and on school sanitary supervision in the Moscow Province. Since the revolution, he has written extensively on issues of sanitary education, school sanitation, and the reform of higher medical education. Molkov's books have been published as separate editions: "Social Problems of Nutrition" (Moscow, 1923), "Hygiene of Upbringing" (Moscow, 1930). Under Molkov's editorship, a number of collective manuals and collections have been published: "Handbook on Sanitary Education" (vol. 1, Moscow, 1925); "Fundamentals of Prevention in Medicine" (edited by Molkov, N. Semashko, and A. Sysin, Moscow-Leningrad, 1927); "Social Hygiene" (vols. I–II, Moscow-Leningrad, 1927–1930); "Kalmyks" (Moscow-Leningrad, 1928; works of the expedition); "Dargins" (Moscow-Leningrad, 1930; social-hygienic study of the nationalities of Dagestan), and others. He serves as a co-editor of the Great Medical Encyclopedia and the journals "Hygiene and Epidemiology" and "Social Hygiene."