
Mikhail Borisovich Kogan (; September 5, 1893 in
Zhitomir
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,
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– November 26, 1951 in
Moscow
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,
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) was a Soviet medical doctor, and head of the therapy department of
2nd Moscow Medical Institute. His patients included
Samuel Marshak,
Martiros Saryan
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,
Dmitri Shostakovich
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, and
Vyacheslav Molotov
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.
He was one of the doctors named in
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's fabricated
Doctors' Plot
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in 1953, despite Kogan having already died by the time when the first article about the plot was published.
''Pravda'' newspaper 13th of January 1953
/ref> His brother, , also a doctor, was arrested and jailed as part of the Doctors' Plot campaign.
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Soviet physicians
1951 deaths
1893 births
Physicians from Moscow
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