Professor Georgy Speransky

Abstract

This article is dedicated to a great Soviet paediatrician Georgy Nestorovich Speransky, who was the first director of the Institute of Paediatrics of Academy of Medical Sciences of USSR. The present-day Institute of Paediatrics is one of the few paediatric institutions included in the structure of the Scientific Center of Children’s Health of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and in 2010 was named after G. N. Speransky. The Center collaborates with Pauls Stradiņš Museum of History of Medicine in Rīga and the Institute of History of Medicine of Rīga Stradiņš University. This article is the result of cooperation between these institutions. We express our sincere gratitude to Maija Pozemkovska, the assistant Professor of the Institute of History of Medicine of Rīga Stradiņš University personally for her help and collaboration.