Miron Vovsi

Physician, Deceased Person

1897 – 1960

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Who was Miron Vovsi?

Miron Vovsi was a prominent physician of the Soviet Union.

He was Joseph Stalin's personal physician. At the end of January 1953 Miron Vovsi was arrested within the frame of the so-named Doctors' Plot. Vovsi is the cousin of Solomon Mikhoels who was assassinated in 1948 at the orders of Stalin and Georgy Malenkov. Vovsi was released by Lavrentiy Beria after Stalin's death in 1953, as was his son-in-law, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

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Born
May 13, 1897
Also known as
  • Dr. Miron Vovsi
Profession
Died
1960

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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