Abstract:
October 2023 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the famous epidemiologist, health organizer, authoritative scientist and teacher, chief epidemiologist of the Northwestern, Kalinin and 1st Baltic Fronts during the Great Patriotic War, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Microbiology, Epidemiology and Immunobiology, Honored Scientist of the Uzbek SSR, Professor Ivan Ivanovich Elkin (photo 1. Ivan Ivanovich Elkin).