Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»269010.69541/NRIPH.2025.01.020Научная статьяThe ‘KR’ case: a trial of the Minister of Health of the USSR, G. A. MiterevAbramkinaDaria I.dasha81.07@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0009-0007-6836-7940FSBEI HE «ROSUNIMED» OF MOH OF RUSSIA02042025112112422042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>Minister of Health of the USSR G. A. Miterev in 1946 should have felt quite confident: for 7 years of work in a leading position<br />he had accumulated considerable experience as a health care organiser, the actions of the People's Commissariat of Health headed by<br />him during the Great Patriotic War were extremely successful, the post-war development of Soviet health care was going on confidently.<br />However, at the end of the year he was suddenly deprived of his post for attempted scientific cooperation with recent allies in the war <br />the Americans: academician-secretary of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR V. V. Parin during a business trip transferred to the<br />Soviet Union. During a business trip, Parin gave them samples of the anti-cancer drug KR (krutsina) developed by N. G. Klyueva and<br />G. I. Roskin and the manuscript of a book on cancer biotherapy. The scientists were accused of anti-patriotic and anti-state actions, and<br />the minister was branded as an apolitical swindler. In June 1947, a trial of honour was held against N. G. Klyueva and G. I. Roskin, and in<br />August of the same year against G. A. Miterev. All charges brought against them during these trials were dropped at a meeting of the<br />Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee in October 1959.<br /><br /></p>N. G. KlyuevaG. I. RoskinA. G. MiterevKrutsinKR caseCourt of HonourН. Г. КлюеваГ. И. РоскинА. Г. Митеревкруциндело «КР»суд чести1.Shnol S. E. Heroes and Villains of Russian Science. Moscow: KRON PRESS; 1997 (in Russian).2.3.Esakov V. D., Levina E. S. Delo ‘KR’ (From the history of persecution of the Soviet intelligentsia). Centaur. [Kentavr]. 1994;(2):54—65 (in Russian).4.5.Postwar Moscow. 1945—1947: Arch. doc. and materials. Moscow: Izd-vo obed. ‘Mosgorarchiv’; 2000 (in Russian).6.7.Society and power. Russian Province. 1917—1985: Documents and materials in 6 vols. Perm region. Vol. 2. 1941—1985. Ekaterinburg: Bank of Cultural Information; 2008 (in Russian).8.9.Kostyrchenko G. V. Ideological purges of the second half of the10.40s: pseudo-patriots against pseudo-cosmopolitans. Soviet society: emergence, development, historical finale: in 2 vol. Vol. 2. Apogee and collapse of Stalinism. Edited by Y. N. Afanasyev. Moscow: Russian State University; 1997 (in Russian).11.12.Miterev G. A. In the days of peace and war. Moscow: Medicine;13.1975 (in Russian).14.15.Pashkov K. A., Abramkina D. I. The activity of G. A. Miterev, the USSR People's Commissar of Health Care, related to arrangement of efficient guidance of evacuation hospitals during the Great Patriotic War. Problems of social hygiene, public health and history of medicine. [Problemi socialnoi gigieni, zdravookhranenia i istorii meditsini].2025;33(1):125—128 (in Russian). DOI: 10.32687/0869-16.866X-2025-33-1-125-128