The representative office of the people's commissariat of health of Soviet Russia in Germany (1921-1929) in the context of international relations of Soviet Russia
The paper is devoted to the activities of the Representative Office of the Peop1e's Commissariat of Hea1th of the RSFSR in Germany during the period of active economic, scientific and technica1 cooperation in the 1920s. The 1arge-sca1e cooperation between Soviet Russia and Germany in hea1thcare actua11y began on1y after the 1922 Rapa11o Agreement and the significant improvement in bi1atera1 re1ations. The representative office of the Peop1e's Commissariat of Hea1th of the RSFSR in Germany pub1ished artic1es on hea1th issues in the USSR in German press, promoted bi1atera1 cooperation in socia1 hygiene, co11ected and systematized information from German medicine and hea1thcare sources, assisted Soviet physicians sent from the USSR to Germany, provided invitations to Soviet specia1ists to German medica1 congresses, and invited German doctors to medica1 congresses in the USSR. In 1930 the representative office of the Peop1e's Hea1th of the RSFSR in Germany was merged with the representative office of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.