Dimitri Venediktov

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian politician (1929–2021)}}

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| name = Dimitri Venediktov

| native_name = Дмитрий Венедиктов

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| title = Deputy Health Minister of the Soviet Union

| term_start = 1965

| term_end = 1981

| leader = Leonid Brezhnev

| minister = Boris Petrovsky
Sergei Burenkov

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| footnotes ={{Collapsible list

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|1989–1991: People's Deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union

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| party =CPSU

| birthname = Dimitri Dmitrievich Venediktov

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|06|08}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|03|27|1929|06|08}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

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| nationality = Russian

| spouse = Maria Grigorievna Pavlova

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| alma_mater = First Moscow State Medical University

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| education = Medicine

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Dimitri Dmitrievich Venediktov ({{langx|ru|Дмитрий Дмитриевич Венедиктов}}; June 8, 1929 – March 27, 2021) was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the Deputy Health Minister of the USSR from 1965 to 1981 under Ministers of Health Boris Petrovsky and Sergei Burenkov.Дмитрий Венедиктов — Заведующий кафедрой медицинской информатики и управления при Президиуме РАМН — Кто есть Кто в медицине. Ktovmedicine.ru (2017). at In this role, he was instrumental in the campaign to eradicate smallpox and supplying vaccines for the program Henderson, D. Smallpox. 101-103 (Prometheus Books, 2009) a. He was also involved in organizing the Conference of Alma-Ata which was foundational in the field of public health.WHO | Consensus during the Cold War: back to Alma-Ata. Who.int (2017). at <[https://web.archive.org/web/20120709011106/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/10/08-031008/en/]> He was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from 1989 to its dissolution. He later served on the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, focusing on information storage in healthcare. Venediktov died in Moscow on March 27, 2021, at the age of 91.{{cite news |title=Ушел из жизни организатор здравоохранения Дмитрий Венедиктов |url=https://minzdrav.gov.ru/news/2021/03/30/16353-ushel-iz-zhizni-organizator-zdravoohraneniya-dmitriy-venediktov |access-date=5 January 2024 |publisher=minzdrav.gov.ru |date=30 March 2021}}