Eduard Armenakovich Babayan is one of the leading Russian experts in the field of narcology and pharmacology, professor, doctor of medical sciences, honoured doctor of the Russian Federation. His name is connected with the formation of international and national systems of control over the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
E.A. Babayan was born on August 31, 1920 in Leninakan of the Armenian SSR. In the summer of 1941, having graduated from the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute named after N.I. Pirogov with a specialization in medical care, he returns to his hometown. Having passed the final state exams at the Yerevan State Medical Institute as an external student, he begins to work as a resident physician in the surgical department of the 1st City Hospital of Leninakan.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (hereinafter - the War) E.A. Babayan asks to send him to the front. In December 1941, he was mobilized by a rank III military physician of the 400th rifle regiment of the 89th rifle division in the Northern Group of the Transcaucasian and then North Caucasian Front, where he participated in the battle for the city of Malgobek.
In June 1943, E.A. Babayan was transferred to the 75th assault battalion of the 15th assault engineering and combat engineer brigade of the reserve of the mayor command, which included battles on the Voronezh, 1st and 4th Ukrainian fronts as a battalion surgeon, commander of a separate medical platoon, brigade doctor.
For the services in battles E.A. Babayan was awarded with orders and medals, including the orders of the Red Star (for the storming of the Dnieper) and World War of the II degree, the medals "For Distinguished Service Order" and "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, has eight notes of acknowledgement from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief: for participation in supporting of the Vinnitsa and Lviv operations, for overcoming of the Carpathian ridge, for participation in conquest of the cities Mukachev, Michalovce and Humenne, Chatorelia-Uichel, Nowy Targ, Troppau (Opava).
E.A. Babayan finished the war as a lieutenant colonel of medical service and continued his service in the Lviv Military District as a brigade surgeon, and then as a garrison doctor of the Yavoriv garrison.
E.A. Babayan spent at the front the entire period of the war, with the exception of two months, when he was heavily shell-shocked, and then suffered from typhus in the hospital.
In 1947 E.A. Babayan is demobilized and returns to Moscow, to the department of psychiatry of the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute. Here begins his journey as an outstanding doctor and scientist who devoted his whole life in peace to a not less fierce war with the eradication of non-medical use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, the struggle for the health and well-being of people in our country and around the world.
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