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Роль международного медицинского сотрудничества в развитии здравоохранения Бурятии (1923–1928 гг.)

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The article presents the analysis of the role of international medical cooperation in the development of healthcare in the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in its early years. Prevalence of venereal diseases and tuberculosis in the Buryats was the main problem in the 1920s. At the same time, Buryat-Mongolia played an important role in the geopolitical plans to export revolution eastwards. Thus, the Bolsheviks paid much attention to the improvement of health of the Buryat people directing the incoming international aid toward these purposes. The authors expose causal relationships leading to the organization of one of the best known international joint projects of the 1920s in medicine – the 1928 Soviet-German syphilis expedition to Buryat-Mongolia. The article demonstrates the specific features of scientific and medical agendas of Soviet and German participants of the expedition. In the context of the development of healthcare in Buryatia, it assesses the outcomes of the 1928 expedition.