Abstract
The article is devoted to G. I. Arkhangelsky, Russian hygienist and public figure. He was a collaborator and editor of the «Epidemiological leaflet» (1870–1871) and the journal «Archives of forensic medicine and public hygiene». Consultant to the St. Petersburg Duma on medical issues, and then an advisory member of the Duma Commission for Public Health. Together with S. P. Botkin he developed a system of organisation of free medical care for the poor population of St. Petersburg. He organised the fight against epidemics of cholera, typhus, diphtheria; participated in the creation of city maternity shelters; was the initiator of attraction of women doctors to the city service.
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