Dimitri Venediktov

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian politician (1929–2021)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dimitri Venediktov | native_name = Дмитрий Венедиктов | image = | caption = | title = [[Ministry of Health (Soviet Union)|Deputy Health Minister of the Soviet Union]] | term_start = 1965 | term_end = 1981 | leader = [[Leonid Brezhnev]] | minister = [[Boris Petrovsky]]<br />[[Sergei Burenkov]] | predecessor = | successor = | footnotes = {{Collapsible list |titlestyle = background-color:#FCF;text-align:center; |title = Other offices held |bullets = on |1989–1991: People's Deputy of the [[Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union]] }} | party = [[CPSU]] | birth_name = Dimitri Dmitrievich Venediktov | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|06|08}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|03|27|1929|06|08}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | death_cause = | spouse = Maria Grigorievna Pavlova | children = | alma_mater = [[First Moscow State Medical University]] | website = | education = [[Medicine]] }}

'''Dimitri Dmitrievich Venediktov''' ({{langx|ru|Дмитрий Дмитриевич Венедиктов}}; June 8, 1929 – March 27, 2021) was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the Deputy Health Minister of the [[USSR]] from 1965 to 1981 under [[Ministry of Health (Soviet Union)|Ministers of Health]] [[Boris Petrovsky]] and [[Sergei Burenkov]].<ref name = "ktovmedicine">Дмитрий Венедиктов — Заведующий кафедрой медицинской информатики и управления при Президиуме РАМН — Кто есть Кто в медицине. Ktovmedicine.ru (2017). at <http://ktovmedicine.ru/people/dmitriy-venediktov.html></ref> In this role, he was instrumental in the [[Eradication of smallpox|campaign to eradicate smallpox]] and supplying vaccines for the program <ref>Henderson, D. Smallpox. 101-103 (Prometheus Books, 2009) a.</ref> He was also involved in organizing the [[Declaration of Alma-Ata|Conference of Alma-Ata]] which was foundational in the field of [[public health]].<ref>WHO | Consensus during the Cold War: back to Alma-Ata. Who.int (2017). at <[https://web.archive.org/web/20120709011106/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/10/08-031008/en/]></ref> He was elected to the [[Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union]] from 1989 to its dissolution.<ref name="ktovmedicine"/> He later served on the [[Russian Academy of Medical Sciences]], focusing on information storage in healthcare. Venediktov died in Moscow on March 27, 2021, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ушел из жизни организатор здравоохранения Дмитрий Венедиктов |url=https://minzdrav.gov.ru/news/2021/03/30/16353-ushel-iz-zhizni-organizator-zdravoohraneniya-dmitriy-venediktov |access-date=5 January 2024 |publisher=minzdrav.gov.ru |date=30 March 2021}}</ref>

== Awards == Venediktov received two [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour|Orders of the Red Banner of Labour]] and one [[Order of the Badge of Honour]] amongst other awards.<ref name="ktovmedicine"/>

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