P. G. Sergiev

Pyotr Grigoryevich Sergiev (; 10 July 1893 – 12 July 1973) was a Soviet parasitologist and epidemiologist, Fellow of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, professor, public health organizer, malariologist working with World Health Organization. In addition, he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour and two Stalin Prizes.

Early life and education Pyotr Sergiev was born in the village of Sretenskoye in the Vyatka Governorate (today's the Kotelnichsky District of the Kirov Oblast), Russian Empire, to a local teacher. In 1917 he graduated from the medical faculty of Kazan Federal University and was sent to the army as a regimental doctor. After demobilization in 1918, he worked as an infectious disease specialist. was built, which already in 1936 began to produce the Akrikhin drug, and the anti-malarial drug quinocide was also synthesized.

From 1936 to 1972, Sergiev was the editor-in-Chief of Medical Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases. He was also a member of the League of Nations’ Malaria Commission. At the same time, he held the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR from 15 August 1937. He later became the head of the anti-epidemic department from 1938 until 1941. He was also the head of the Department for Combating malaria at the Commissariat. On 14 November 1944, Sergiev was elected a Fellow of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences among its first members, becoming a member of the Presidium of the Parasitological Medicine Department of the Academy of Medical Sciences USSR (1946–1948). He contributed to the introduction of the aerial chemical method in the treatment of anophelogenic reservoirs. In 1952, Sergiev and a group of malariologists were awarded the Stalin Prize for developing a system of measures and putting them into practice on a national scale. By 1960, malaria had practically been eliminated in the USSR.

Sergiev became the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences' secretary (1953–1957), and Vice-President (1957–1960). At the same time, He was a lecturer at the Central Institute for Medical Training of Physicians and the First Moscow State Medical University. He was survived by his son Vladimir (born 1943), a parasitologist and Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and grandson Pyotr (born 1973), a molecular biologist and a Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Order of the Badge of Honour (28 October 1967)

In honor of Sergiev in 1978 V. N. Danilov, N. Ya. Markovich and A. M. Proskuryakova named a species of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, Aedes sergievi [ ceb].