Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich (Hero Of The Soviet Union) (Kuzmin, Mikhail Kuzmich (Hero Of The Soviet Union)). Kuzmin Mikhail Lvovich

Mikhail Kuzmich Kuzmin(1915-1941) - political instructor Soviet army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero Soviet Union(1941), posthumously.

Biography

Mikhail Kuzmin was born on October 17, 1915 in the village of Staroe Tyaberdino, Tsivilsky district, Kazan province, into a working-class family. In 1929 he graduated from 7 classes high school, in 1931 - school working youth in the village of Molkeevo.

Since 1931 he worked on a collective farm in his native village. In 1932 he moved to the city of Shatura, Moscow region. In 1934 he graduated from the workers' school in the city of Shatura. Since 1934, he worked as a mechanic in the electromechanical workshop of the Shatursky Hydrotof trust.

In February 1937, Kuzmin was drafted into the Red Army by the Yegoryevsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Moscow region. In 1938, after graduating from the 23rd regimental school mechanized brigade Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, continued to serve in the same brigade for Far East. In February 1938 he was appointed tank commander, in May 1938 - commander of a tank platoon, and from July 1938 - head of the library of the garrison House of the Red Army. On September 26, 1938, Kuzmin was awarded the title " junior political instructor" In 1939, junior political instructor Kuzmin submitted a report on leaving for long-term service.

In 1940, he was sent to study at the Gorky Military-Political School named after M. V. Frunze. In May 1941, after graduating from college, Kuzmin was appointed to tank unit stationed on the territory of Latvia. On June 6, 1941, Kuzmin was awarded the rank of “political instructor.”

Kuzmin arrived in his unit when the Great Patriotic War had already begun. The division did not have time to receive tanks and was used in battles as a motorized rifle division. Baptism of fire received near the city of Daugavpils. Then, as part of his regiment, with heavy, grueling battles, he retreated to the east. At the end of August 1941, the 46th tank division was put into reserve, and the 46th Tank Brigade was formed from it. Kuzmin was appointed commissioner tank company.

In October he took part in battles on south coast Svir River. Political instructor of the 46th tank company tank regiment 46th tank brigade 4th separate army political instructor M.K. Kuzmin performed an outstanding feat during the Tikhvin offensive operation. November 29, 1941 during an attack on enemy positions in the Kordon Spassky area (Tikhvin district Leningrad region) political instructor Kuzmin was in the lead tank KV-2. The tank was hit by a direct hit from a shell; the entire crew, except Kuzmin, who was acting as an artilleryman, was killed. The political instructor continued to fire at the fascists surrounding him with an anti-aircraft machine gun, fought back with grenades, and shot back until the last bullet. He chose to burn in the tank rather than fall into the hands of the enemy.

By Decree of the Presidium Supreme Council USSR dated December 17, 1941 for exemplary performance combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, political instructor Mikhail Kuzmich Kuzmin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin (posthumously).

He was buried in the city of Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, where the street on which it was installed was named after him. Memorial plaque.

Memory

The Hero's name is carved on the stele Eternal Flame V Nizhny Novgorod.
At home, in the village of Staroye Tyaberdino, his name was given to the school where he studied.
A memorial plaque in memory of Kuzmin was installed by the Russian Military Historical Society on the building of the Starotyaberdinskaya secondary school in the Kaybitsky district, where he studied.

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1893---1937, Leningrad) native of the village of Stoyachevo, Borovichi district, Leningrad. region, Russian, member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1925-1937, member of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee, chairman of the Borovichi District Executive Committee, lived: Borovichi, st. Dzerzhinsky, 35. Arrested 07/1937/06 by an on-site session of the Special Collegium of the Leningrad Regional Court in Borovichi; 10/1937/01 sentenced under Art. Art. 58-7-11 Criminal Code of the RSFSR k to the highest degree punishments. Shot in Leningrad 11/19/19 [Leningrad]

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1894---1941/45) Syktyvkar GVK, 03.1942 Komi ASSR, Red Army soldier died in Vel. Otech. war

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1895, Bolshie Podolzheny village - 1934) Russian, literate, non-party member, member of a collective farm, lived on the village of Berezka. Arrested 04/1934 Sentenced to 10 years in concentration camps. Survived by a wife and three children. [NovgKP: t. 5, p. 260, Starorussky Novgorodskaya district region] [Book of Remembrance of Victims political repression Novgorod region. T.1-9.]

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(1896, Chuvashia --- 1942.06.) Red Army soldier of the Yudinsky RVK Tatarstan, Red Army soldier died in Vel. Otech. war

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1896---1937, Leningrad) native and resident of the village of Petryaevo, Ostrovsky district, Leningrad. region, Russian, non-party, collective farmer. Arrested 08/1937/24 by a special troika of the UNKVD LO 1937/08/28 sentenced under Art. Art. 58-10-13 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment. Shot in Leningrad 1937.08.31 [Leningrad]

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1900, village of Kamenets, Tver region - 1938) Russian, literate, non-partisan, loader of a plywood mill, lived in the village of Parfino. Arrested 1938.07.09 Case dismissed, released 1939.08.11 [NovgKP: vol. 3, p. 244, Parfinsky district of the Novgorod region.] [Book of memory of victims of political repressions of the Novgorod region. T.1-9.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1908, village of Sluchino, Poddorsky district, 1937) Russian, 3rd grade education, non-partisan, military serviceman. Arrested 08/1937/20 Sentenced to 7 years in the camps. [NovgKP: v. 8, p. 68, Borovichi district, Novgorod region.] [Book of memory of victims of political repression in the Novgorod region. T.1-9.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1908, Slugino village - 1937) foreman of long-term service 47 rifle regiment. Arrested 08/1937/20 Sentenced 11/1937/13 to 7 years in the camps. [NovgKP: t. 8, p. 206, Poddorsky district, Novgorod region.] [Book of memory of victims of political repressions of the Novgorod region. T.1-9.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1915, village of Old Tyaberdino now Apastovsky Tat district. ASSR--, 1935) born. in a working-class family. Russian. Member of the CPSU. Graduated from 7th grade. He worked as a technician installing drilling rigs. In Sov. Army since 1935. Graduated from Gorkov in 1941. military-political school. Participant Vel. Fatherland war since June 1941. Political instructor of the company of the 46th tank, regiment (46th tank, brigade, 4th Division Army) political instructor K. distinguished himself on 11/19/29 in the Kordon Spassky region ( Tikhvinsky district Leningr. region). His tank was hit and the crew was killed. K. shot back until the last bullet. He was burned in a tank, but did not surrender to the enemy. Title of Hero of the Owls. Union assigned 12/1941/17 posthumously. Load hord. Lenin. He was buried in Tikhvin. There is an obelisk on the grave, and a memorial is installed on the street named after him. board. The Hero's name is carved on a stele near the Eternal Flame in Gorky and given to the school where he studied.

Kuzmin Mikhail Kuzmich

(1916.08.25--, 1999) as of 1999.10.29 resident: Ukraine Sumy region, Konotop

Kuzmin Mikhail Lvovich

(1896, Yaroslavl district, Yaroslavl region --- 1944.05.) In Vel.Otech. disappeared during the war. [CPNA, volume 7, page 180.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Markelovich

(1872, Moscow region, Egoryevsky district, Vasilevo village --- 1937.10.31, Moscow, Butovo) Disorder. 10/31/37. [Butovo]

Kuzmin Mikhail Markelovich

(1872---1937.10.31, Moscow,†Butovo) ktitor of the Moscow region, Noginsk. Repressed, shot

Kuzmin Mikhail Mikhailovich

(1901, Ivanovo region, Kolyagino village, Yaroslavl, Leninsk district --- 1943.04.04) kr-ts. In Vel.Otech. disappeared during the war. [CPNA, volume 1, page 417.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Mikhailovich

(1907) in 1907 petty bourgeois? - Kaluga (1907)

Kuzmin Mikhail Mikhailovich

(1909) in 1909 lieutenant colonel of infantry [General sp.officer. to 1909. See section ]

Kuzmin Mikhail Mikhailovich

(1912.11.17--, 2002) as of 2002 resident: Moscow region. Taldomsky district, P. Severny Shkolnaya 1

Kuzmin Mikhail Mikhailovich

(1913--,2001) for 2001 resident: Tambov Embankment 88 Kv 20 (Len. district)

Kuzmin Mikhail Mikhailovich

(1918.03.05, Larionovka village now Znamensky district, Omsk region - 1943) b. in a peasant family. Finn. Member of the CPSU since 1943. Graduated from Tarsk forestry. school, 4 courses correspondence branches of the Tomsk flour-grinding elevator. in-ta. Worked as a laboratory assistant, technical director, site director, senior officer. State grain inspector in Omsk. In Sov. Armies since 1941.10.. In battles Vel. Fatherland war since March 1943. Gunner of the 5th Guards. air-des. art. regiment (10th Guards Airborne Division, 37th Army, Steppe Front) Guards. Sergeant K. with calculation crossed the Dnieper in the region of the village of Perevolochna (now the village of Svetlogorskoe, Kobelyaksky district, Poltava region). In the battles on the bridgehead on October 1-14, 1943 he was in the combat formations of the paratroopers and repelled the counterattacks of the pr-ka, causing him damage in manpower and military equipment. Title of Hero of the Owls. Union assigned 12/20/43. After the war, Sergeant Major K. was demobilized. Lived in the village Mikhailovka, Tarsky district, Omsk region. Graduated from Omsk two-year school. party school. Was on the leading desk, and owls. work. Lives in Omsk. Load hord. Lenin, Fatherland War, 1st Art., medals.

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikitich

(1913.01.01, Khmelnitsk region, Letichevsky district, Goloskov village - 2002) as of 2002.01.08 resident: Ukraine, Khmelnitsky

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikitich

(1913.07.10, Khmelnitsk region, Letichevsky district, Goloskov village - 2003) as of 2003.10.06 resident: Ukraine Khmelnitsk region, Letichevsk district, Goloskov village

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikiforovich

(1909.10.03--, 2002) resident: St. Petersburg, passport dated 1977.02.19

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikiforovich

(1916.12.28--, 2002) resident: St. Petersburg, passport dated 1978.06.19

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikolaevich

1899 .RSFSR. Sentenced on 1938.05.16 by the NKVD Commission and the USSR Prosecutor VMN. Shot on June 1938, 1919 in Krasnoyarsk. Rehabilitated 1958.02.21 VT Siberian Military District. (P-8999). [Krasnoyarsk]

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikolaevich

(1899---1945.04.) private died in Vel. Otech. war

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikolaevich

(1910, Vologda region, Yaroslavl, Leninsk district --- 1944.01.) kr-ts. In Vel.Otech. disappeared during the war. [CPNA, volume 1, page 417.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikolaevich

(1918,--1961.11.05 in Gagny, France) School of Law 1917 (did not graduate, 3rd grade). Officer since 1915. Staff captain of the Life Guards. Horse Grenadier Regiment. In the All-Soviet Union of Socialist Republics and the Russian Army, in exile in France. Mind. 1961.11.05 in Gagny (France). [Volkov S.V. Officers of the Russian Guards M., 2002]

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikolaevich (Alekhin Grigory Ivanovich)

(1908---1937.11.19) village of the Second Pasta, Rudnyansky district Smolensk region, Russian. Afrikanda Kirovskaya station railway, lumber mill, lumberjack, village. Afrikanda Murmansk region, barrack No. 14. Arrested 09.25.37, Art. 58-10-11 CC. Convicted on 11/1937/15 by a special troika of the NKVD for the Leningrad Region, VMN. Shot on 11/19/37. Place of execution - Leningrad. Rehabilitated 1989.05.15 by the Prosecutor's Office of the Murmansk Region. [Book of Memory: Name list of repressed residents of the Kola Peninsula, as well as foreign citizens who lived in the Murmansk region. Murmansk, 1997.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Nikolaevich (aka Alekhin Grigory Ivanovich)

(1908---1937, Leningrad) native of the village of Vtoraya Pastva, Rudnyansky district, Western region, Russian, non-party member, lumberjack of the Zasheikovsky lumber mill, Murmansk region. Linen. region, resided: st. Afrikanda Kirovskaya railway d.Arrested 1937.09.25 By a special troika of the UNKVD LO 1937.11.15 sentenced under Art. Art. 17-58-8, 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment. Shot in Leningrad 11/19/19 [Leningrad]

Kuzmin Mikhail Nilovich

(1874--, 1920) native and resident of the village of Karatuzskoye, Sagai parish. Minusinsk district of the Yenisei province. Russian Cossack. In 1918 he served in Kolchak's army. In 1920 he spent 11 months in prison for counter-revolutionary activities. From peasant kulaks. He worked on his farm. Arrested on 11/1937/18 in the case of P.M. Vyatkin. (14 people), was kept in the Minusinsk prison. Charges in KRPO, ASA. Convicted on 12/1937/03 by the troika of the UNKVD KK to 8 years in labor camp. Rehabilitated 12/1957/07 by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court. (P-19411). [Krasnoyarsk]

Kuzmin Mikhail Pavlovich

(---1905.05.14, at Tsushima) a tradesman from the mountains, a fireman of the 2nd class on a squadron battleship died in a battle with the Japanese in the Tsushima Strait. Orenburg.

Kuzmin Mikhail Pavlovich

(1913.10.10--, 1998) resident: Moscow, Kirova Ave. (Lublino), no. 8, apt. 184

Kuzmin Mikhail Pavlovich

(1913.10.23--, 1988) resident: Perm, 4th Novgorodskaya St., 69 apt. 0, passport issued 1988.08.05

Kuzmin Mikhail Pavlovich

(1913.10.23--, 1988) as of 2004 resident of Perm: Motovilikha district, Novgorodskaya str. 4th 69 sq. 0 Registration: 2000.01.18 Passport dated 1988.08.05

Kuzmin Mikhail Pavlovich

(1916.10.06--, 2002) resident: St. Petersburg, passport dated 1977.03.03

Kuzmin Mikhail Petrovich

(1875--,1921) Native Ryazan region, resident of Ulyanovsk, a turner at a cartridge factory, had 4 children, from 1921.11.12 to 1921.12.26 was illegally detained for. In 1921, the Simbirsk gubchek established public supervision. Completely rehabilitated on April 18, 1996. [Ulyanovsk]

Kuzmin Mikhail Petrovich

(1897---1944.03.13) Red Army soldier died in Vel.Otech. war

Kuzmin Mikhail Polikarpovich

(1898.11.07, settlement of Novonikolaevsky, Tomsk province. Russian --- 1938.07.25) lower education. From the workers, non-party. Lived in Krasnoyarsk. Head of the company's quality team. Arrested 1938.06.02. Charge under Art. 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Sentenced on 06/1938/13 by the UNKVD KK troika to VMN with confiscation of personal property. Shot on July 1938, 2025 in Krasnoyarsk. Rehabilitated 04/1957/13 by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court (P-6834). [Krasnoyarsk]

Kuzmin Mikhail Sergeevich

(1910, Moscow --- 1937.09.21, Moscow,†Butovo) Upset. 09.21.37. [Butovo]

Kuzmin Mikhail Sergeevich

(1918.10.03--1993.03.26) Russian specialized secondary education resident: Kaluga Melnichnaya st. 64 (Russia Oktyabrsky Kaluga)

Kuzmin Mikhail Stepanovich

(1883, village of Kostovo --- 1937) Russian, literate, non-partisan, worker, lived in the village of Kostovo. Arrested 04/1937/30 Shot in Novgorod. [NovgKP: vol. 1, p. 201, Novgorod district, Novgorod region.] [Book of memory of victims of political repressions of the Novgorod region. T.1-9.]

Kuzmin Mikhail Stepanovich

(1883---1937, Leningrad) native and resident of the village of Kostovo, Novoselitsky village, Novgorod district Len. region, Russian, non-party, worker. Arrested on 04/1937/30 by a special troika of the UNKVD LO on 08/1937/23 sentenced to capital punishment. Shot in Novgorod 1937.08.29 [Leningrad]

Kuzmin Mikhail Stepanovich

(1909) in 1909 infantry captain [General sp.officer. to 1909. See section ]

Mikhail Kuzmin was born on October 17, 1915 in the village of Staroe Tyaberdino, Tsivilsky district, Kazan province, into a working-class family. In 1929 he graduated from 7 classes of secondary school, in 1931 - from the school for working youth in the village of Molkeevo.

In February 1937, Kuzmin was drafted into the Red Army by the Yegoryevsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Moscow region. In 1938, after graduating from the regimental school of the 23rd Mechanized Brigade of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, he continued to serve in the same brigade in the Far East. In February 1938 he was appointed tank commander, in May 1938 - commander of a tank platoon, and from July 1938 - head of the library of the garrison House of the Red Army. On September 26, 1938, Kuzmin was awarded the rank of “junior political instructor.” In 1939, junior political instructor Kuzmin submitted a report on leaving for long-term service.

In 1940, he was sent to study at the Gorky Military-Political School named after M. V. Frunze. In May 1941, after graduating from college, Kuzmin was assigned to a tank unit stationed in Latvia. On June 6, 1941, Kuzmin was awarded the rank of “political instructor.”

Kuzmin arrived in his unit when the Great Patriotic War had already begun. The division did not have time to receive tanks and was used in battles as a motorized rifle division. He received his baptism of fire near the city of Daugavpils. Then, as part of his regiment, with heavy, grueling battles, he retreated to the east. At the end of August 1941, the 46th Tank Division was transferred to reserve, and the 46th Tank Brigade was formed from it. Kuzmin was appointed commissar of a tank company.

In October he took part in battles on the southern bank of the Svir River. The political instructor of the tank company of the 46th tank regiment of the 46th tank brigade of the 4th separate army, political instructor M.K. Kuzmin, performed an outstanding feat during the Tikhvin offensive operation. On November 29, 1941, during an attack on enemy positions in the Kordon Spassky area (Tikhvin district of the Leningrad region), political instructor Kuzmin was in the lead KV-2 tank. The tank was hit by a direct hit from a shell; the entire crew, except Kuzmin, who was acting as an artilleryman, was killed. The political instructor continued to fire at the fascists surrounding him with an anti-aircraft machine gun, fought back with grenades, and shot back until the last bullet. He chose to burn in the tank rather than fall into the hands of the enemy.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 17, 1941, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown, political instructor Mikhail Kuzmich Kuzmin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin (posthumously).

He was buried in the city of Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, where a street on which a memorial plaque was installed was named after him. The name of the Hero is carved on a stele near the Eternal Flame in Nizhny Novgorod. At home, in the village of Staroye Tyaberdino, his name was given to the school where he studied.

, Tikhvinsky district, Leningrad region

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Mikhail Kuzmich Kuzmin(-) - political commissar of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (), posthumously.

Biography

Since 1931 he worked on a collective farm in his native village. In 1932 he moved to the city of Shatura, Moscow Region. In 1934 he graduated from the workers' school in the city of Shatura. Since 1934, he worked as a mechanic in the electromechanical workshop of the Shatursky Hydrotof trust.

In February 1937, Kuzmin was drafted into the Red Army by the Yegoryevsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Moscow region. In 1938, after graduating from the regimental school of the 23rd Mechanized Brigade of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, he continued to serve in the same brigade in the Far East. In February 1938 he was appointed tank commander, in May 1938 - commander of a tank platoon, and from July 1938 - head of the library of the garrison House of the Red Army. On September 26, 1938, Kuzmin was awarded the rank of “junior political instructor”. In 1939, junior political instructor Kuzmin submitted a report on leaving for long-term service.

In October, he took part in battles on the southern bank of the Svir River. The political instructor of the tank company of the 46th tank regiment of the 46th tank brigade of the 4th separate army, political instructor M.K. Kuzmin, performed an outstanding feat during the Tikhvin offensive operation. On November 29, 1941, during an attack on enemy positions in the Kordon Spassky area (Tikhvin district of the Leningrad region), political instructor Kuzmin was in the lead KV-2 tank. The tank was hit by a direct hit from a shell; the entire crew, except Kuzmin, who was acting as an artilleryman, was killed. The political instructor continued to fire at the fascists surrounding him with an anti-aircraft machine gun, fought back with grenades, and shot back until the last bullet. He chose to burn in the tank rather than fall into the hands of the enemy.

He was buried in the city of Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, where a street on which a memorial plaque was installed was named after him.

Memory

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Born on December 31, 1920 in the village of Kolesniki, Smolensk region. Father - Kuzmin Kuzma Vasilievich (1894-1964). Mother - Kuzmina Feodosia Konstantinovna (1896-1962). Spouse - Kuzmina Elizaveta Nikolaevna, general practitioner, head of the department of the 1st polyclinic medical center Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Honored Doctor of the RSFSR. Son - Sergei (born 1949), cardiologist at the special clinic of the medical center of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Daughter - Maria (born 1956), a cardiologist, works in the clinical special hospital of the medical center of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

In 1938 he entered the Leningrad Military Medical School. Already in 1940, he was awarded the title of military paramedic ahead of schedule and sent to the front - the Soviet-Finnish War began, during which Mikhail Kuzmich provided assistance to the wounded in 40-degree frost. On March 6, 1940, the war ended, and the former cadet was returned to Leningrad to continue his studies.

After graduating from college, he was sent to the Baltic Special Military District. The division in which Kuzmin served was one of the first to fight the Nazi troops on June 22, 1941.

As part of the 363rd Division (transformed into the 2nd Guards Mechanized Corps), Kuzmin, as commander of a battalion's medical platoon, went through the entire war from Moscow to Prague. Participated in the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, liberation of Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Mikhail Kuzmich saved the lives of the wounded day and night, winter and summer. He fought on the Kalinin, North-Western, Stalingrad, Don and Southern fronts.

After the end of the war and a long stay in the hospital after being wounded on April 11, 1945, as a result of which he lost his left arm, he was enrolled without exams in the 1st Moscow medical school by order of the Minister of Health: “Enroll in the Faculty of Sanitary Sciences. Passed the exams during the war.” In 1951 he received a medical diploma.
For more than 40 years M.K. Kuzmin worked at the Department of History of Medicine of the Moscow medical academy named after Sechenov. Under his leadership, 15 doctoral and master's theses on the history of medicine.

In 1972, on his initiative, a monument to doctors - heroes of the Great Patriotic War was unveiled.

results scientific research Mikhail Kuzmich published in 350 works (monographs, textbooks, lectures on the history of medicine, a series of works on the history and teaching methods).

Kuzmin gave keynote speeches at 10 international congresses and congresses of medical historians of the USSR - Russia, was elected an honorary member of the Soviet Scientific Society of Medical Historians, the Bulgarian and Hungarian scientific societies history of medicine.

In 1978, Mikhail Kuzmich’s book “History of Medicine” was published - about the development of medicine in Russia. Of particular interest are the chapters devoted to the history of medicine as a science and a subject of teaching, scientific medical schools, the heroism of Soviet doctors, the history of the formation of medical ethics.

The big role of M.K. Kuzmin played a role in the scientific development of the exhibition halls for Central Museum RAMS: “Medicine and mercy in war”, “Historians of Russian medicine”.

Currently M.K. Kuzmin is the head of the scientific sector of the museum of the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy.

Awarded the Order of Lenin, October revolution, Patriotic War, 1st degree, Red Star, “Badge of Honor”, medals “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, “For Victory over Germany”, “For the Capture of Budapest”, “For the Capture of Vienna”, “For the Liberation of Prague” " and others. Has foreign awards.

Lives and works in Moscow.