Evgeniy Petrovich Radin (on the 150th birth anniversary)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Evgeniy Petrovich Radin, a prominent scientist and figure of the Soviet health care. In 1927, he was the head of the State Scientific Institute of Health Protection of Children and Adolescents, founded by People’s Commissariat for Health of the RSFSR — the State Institute for Health Protection of Children and Adolescents named after the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution (later the Moscow Research Institute of Pediatrics and Children Surgery, at present it is the Veltischev Research and Clinical Institute for Pediatrics at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University) — which position he held until 1931. The article reflects the well-known and little-known facts of Radin’s complicated biography, the variety of his great talent and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the Institute, which has remained the flagship of the Russian pediatric science for almost a century.