[Efim Ivanovich Smirnov--an outstanding founder of the military medicine and civil health care (to the 110th anniversary of birth)].

In October 2014 we celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Chief of the Main Military Medical Administration of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Minister of Health of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Colonel-General of the Medical Service Efim Smirnov (1904-1989). The article highlights biographical information about him.