Galina Serdyukovskaya

Galina Nikolaevna Serdyukovskaya (; 6 November 1921 – 11 June 2004) was a Russian hygienist, academic and politician. She was school state sanitary inspector at the School of Sanitation of the Molotovsky (now part of the Proletarsky) district of Moscow from 1946 to 1948 before working at the Main Sanitary and Epidemiological Administration of the Ministry of Health in Moscow until 1960. Serdyukovskaya served as director of the Research Institute of Hygiene and Disease Prevention of Children and Adolescents of the All-Union Scientific Center for Preventive Medicine of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (later the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences) between 1963 and 1996. She was a people's deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union and of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991. Serdyukovskaya was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order of the Badge of Honour (twice).

Biography Serdyukovskaya was born in Moscow on 6 November 1921 to Nikolai Aleksandrovich Khrustalev and Anna Georgievna Emaeva. She was educated at the sanitary and hygienic faculty of the First Moscow State Medical University from 1939 to 1946. Between 1946 and 1948, Serdyukovskaya worked as a school state sanitary inspector at the School of Sanitation of the Molotovsky (now part of the Proletarsky) district of Moscow. She was appointed a senior school inspector of the main sanitary and anti-epidemic department and later became senior inspector, head of department, chief inspector of the Main Sanitary and Epidemiological Administration of the Ministry of Health in Moscow in 1948, remaining in the job until 1960. Serdyukovskaya served as secretary of the party committee of the Ministry of Health between 1960 and 1963,

She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Serdyukovskaya served as a people's deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences together with 40 scientific medical societies from 1989 to 1991. She was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union during its final convocation, Serdyukovskaya left the Academy of Medical Sciences when it was reorganised into the Scientific Center for the Protection of Children's and Adolescents' Health of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in 1996. She later became an advisor to the director of the Research Institute of Hygiene and Health Protection of Children and Adolescents of the State Institution Scientific Center for Children's Health of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences until August 2003.

Awards She was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and twice of the Order of the Badge of Honour in 1960 and 1966. Serdyukovskaya was awarded the F.F. Erisman Prize of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1982 and the Medal "For Services to National Healthcare" in 2001. She also got the "For Diligent Labour", "Excellence in Health Care" and the among other awards.