Zamyatin

ZAMYATIN, Alexander Ivanovich (born in 1873), a major military medical administrator. After graduating from the University of Tartu in 1901, he entered military medical service. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War; from 1906 he worked in the Main Military Medical Administration, and during the imperialist war - on the Southwestern Front. After the October Revolution, Zamyatin was one of the first to transfer to service in the Red Army. He took an active part in the work of the councils of medical collegia on the creation of the People's Commissariat of Health. At the end of 1918, he was appointed assistant to the head of the Main Military Medical Administration, in which position he remained continuously until 1929. Thanks to his extensive administrative and organizational experience, Zamyatin successfully helped establish medical services for the Red Army during the years of the civil war, conducting intensive work in this direction. The services of Z. in the matter of healthcare for the Red Army were noted by the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, which awarded him the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1928.