Boris Petrovsky


Boris Petrovsky - surgeon and politician from Russia. He was born on June 14, 1908 in Yessentuki and died on May 4, 2004 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow State University. He was awarded the Lenin Prize, the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, the Medal of Zhukov, the Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Medal "Veteran of Labour", the Order of the Red Star, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Order of Friendship, the Léon Bernard Foundation Prize, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Order of Lenin, the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class, the USSR State Prize, the Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Hero of Socialist Labour.