Yevgeniy Chazov

Yevgeny Ivanovich Chazov (b. October 6, 1929) (Евгений Иванович Чазов) is a prominent physician of the Soviet Union and Russia, specializing in cardiology, Director of the fourth department of ministry of health of the Soviet Union, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a recipient of numerous awards and decorations, Soviet, Russian, and foreign.

As the director of the fourth department of the soviet ministry of health, which took care of soviet leaders, he is widely regarded to be a person responsible for the health of the Soviet leadership, althouh he sometimes denied that he was their "personal physician".

In his book of memoirs, Health and Power he describes many circumstances concerning the health of the Soviet leaders and of some leaders of the Soviet satellites.