A radiodiagnostics doctor.

Articles about Nerungri District Hospital and Ivan Vershinin, head of Radiodiagnostics Department, were included in Best People of Russia National Encyclopaedia VI Edition.

Ivan Vershinin (born in 1945) is the former USSR Health Service exemplary worker. The Veteran of Labour. The doctor of higher degree. The mentor of young specialists.

Graduated from Irkutsk State Medical School in 1969. Worked at East Siberian Coal Medical Department in Cheremkhovo (Irkutskaya region) for 10 years. Since 1982 he has been working in Nerungri District Hospital, where he has found the radiology service.

He established a training center for radiologists. The staff of his department increased from 6 to 60 workers. He initiated more than 30 modern methods and technologies, including the unique ones for South Yakutia: angiography, thermography, clinical ultrasound, laminography, lithotripsy, endoscopic radiology.

About the encyclopaedia

Best People of Russia is published once in 5 years. It consists of two books, 800 pages each, and contains about 15 thousand personnels. People are selected according to the letters of credence written by regional authorities and NGOs.

The previous edition contained 95 Yakutians.