Lechsanupru (Kremlin Medical-Sanitary Administration)
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The closed medical bureaucracy serving the top Soviet leadership. Founded on 18 February 1919 when People's Commissar of Health Nikolai Semashko and V.D. Bonch-Bruevich signed the Plan for Organizing Sanitary Supervision of the Kremlin. It supervised sanitation in the Kremlin and government sites, treated high officials, and ran elite sanatoria such as Barvikha; most of the physicians arrested in the 1953 Doctors' Plot were drawn from its staff.
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- Wikipedia (RU) founding date (18 Feb 1919), original name (Управление саннадзора Кремля), rename to Лечсанупр in 1928, list of chiefs (Levinson, Khodorovsky, Busalov, Yegorov, Kuperin), reorganization into 4th Main Administration on 24 April 1953
- Wikipedia (RU) Lechsanupru as the institution whose physicians were targeted in the Doctors' Plot; Lydia Timashuk worked in Lechsanupru's functional diagnostics department; her complaint was forwarded to Lechsanupru chief P.I. Yegorov
- e-notabene.ru (Кайкова О.К., История становления и развития Лечебно-санитарного управления Кремля, Исторический журнал: научные исследования, 2014, № 1, С. 79-86) — comprehensive historiography; dual mission of medical care for leadership and sanitary control of the Kremlin; the Lechsanupru as 'special branch of government medicine' operating 1919–1953