Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot150010.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-3-495-498НеопределенArkady Mihailovich Merkov (1899–1971): to the 125th AnniversaryStochikA Amedpublish@mail.ruN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, 105064, Moscow, Russia290620243232204202522042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article takes up scientific, teaching and organizational activities of Arkady Mikhailovich Merkov, professor and doctor of medical sciences. A. M. Merkov is prominent specialist in the field of social hygiene and health care organization. He is author of about 200 works, including 23 monographs devoted to sanitary and demographic statistics and statistics of malignant neoplasms.</p>A. M. Merkovhealth care organizationsanitary hygieneА. М. Мерковорганизация здравоохранениясанитарная гигиена1.Arkady Mikhailovich Merkov (on the 70th anniversary of his birth). Zdravoohranenie Rossijskoj Federacii = Healthcare of the Russian Federation 1969;(1):46–7 (in Russian).2.Arkady Mikhailovich Merkov. Obituary. Voprosy onkologii. 1972;XVIII(3):125 (in Russian).3.Merkov A. M. Population health and methods of its study (Selected works) [Zdorov'e naseleniya i metody ego izucheniya.(Izbrannye proizvedeniya)]. Moscow: Statistics; 1979 (in Russian).4.Arkady Mikhailovich Merkov (1899–1971). Available at: https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2004/0143/nauka02.php (in Russian).