Ministry of Health of the Samara Region

History

2024

A criminal case was opened against the ex-head Armen Benyan

Law enforcement agencies of the Samara region opened a criminal case under the article on abuse of power, which entailed grave consequences, against the former Minister of Health of the region Armen Benyan. This became known on December 19, 2024. Read more here

Appointment as head of Sergei Vdovenko

In November 2024, Sergey Vdovenko was appointed the new head of the Ministry of Health of the Samara Region. Prior to that, he served as acting first deputy head of the department - head of the Department for the Organization of Medical Assistance to the Population. here

Aslanbek Mairamukaev sentenced to 9.5 years of strict regime

On July 2, 2024, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Samara sentenced the former Deputy Minister of Health of the Samara Region Aslanbek Mairamukaev, sentencing him to 9.5 years in prison in a maximum security colony for receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Read more here.

Appointment of Armen Benyan as head of the Ministry of Health

On March 20, 2024, Armen Benyan was again appointed Minister of Health of the Samara Region. Prior to that, he headed the regional Ministry of Health in the status of interim (acting). Read more here.

2023

The deputy head of the Samara Ministry of Health was accused of taking a bribe of 15 million rubles

The Investigative Department of the TFR in the Samara Region opened a new criminal case against the regional deputy minister of health - the head of the department of pharmacy "of medical equipment and logistics Aslanbek Mairamukaev. We are talking about the commission of a crime under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe on an especially large scale). The press service of the department announced this on August 24, 2023. Read more here.

Deputy Minister of Health arrested

In early August 2023, the Samara Zheleznodorozhny District Court arrested Aslanbek Mairamukaev, Deputy Minister of Health of the Samara Region, for a month, who is accused of fraud by an organized group or on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation two episodes). Read more here.

The head of the Ministry of Health of the Samara region Armen Benyan was detained

On August 3, 2023, the Minister of Health of the Samara Region Armen Benyan and his deputy Aslanbek Mayramukaev were detained in a criminal case of fraud in regional medical institutions. About this State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein Hapisal in his Telegram channel. Read more here.

2022

A businessman suspected of fraud in the supply of computers to medical institutions was arrested in Samara

In October 2022, a criminal case was initiated against businessman Soslan Beriev under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code. At the same time, the entrepreneur was placed in a pre-trial detention center, where he will stay at least until January 17, 2023. Read more here.

The court acquitted the deputy head of the Ministry of Health of the Samara region, who was in the case of the cartel

In February 2022, the Sixth Court of Cassation lifted the ban on holding positions in state authorities from the ex-deputy head of the Ministry of Health of the Samara Region Albert Navasardyan and his former subordinate Maxim Kolobov. We are talking about a criminal case of cartel conspiracy when concluding a contract for the maintenance of medical equipment for 768 million rubles. Read more here.

2020: Armen Benyan appointed to the post of Minister of the Samara Ministry of Health

On July 8, 2020, Armen Benyan took office as Minister of Health of the Samara Region. He replaced Mikhail Ratmanov, who in April went on a promotion to the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA). Ratmanov took the post of head of the department for organizing medical care and industrial medicine there. Read more here.

2018

Completion of the investigation and transfer of the case of the SMT director to the court

On April 3, 2018, the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region announced the completion of the investigation of a criminal case of commercial bribery and conspiracy as part of a tender for the maintenance of medical equipment. The investigator collected a sufficient evidence base, in connection with which the materials of the criminal case with the approved indictment were transferred to the federal court of the Samara district of Samara, the department said.

The main defendants are the director of the SMT Sergey Shatilo and his deputy Alexei Sankeev, another 5 accused are involved in the case as accomplices. Read more here.

Indictment in the case of the director of SMT

On March 29, 2018, it became known that the Prosecutor's Office of the Samara Region approved the indictment in a criminal case of commercial bribery and conspiracy as part of a tender for the maintenance of medical equipment. The accused in the case are the director of the Modern Medical Technologies company, which is implementing a project in Samara for the construction of the Heart Clinic cardiac surgery center, Sergei Shatilo, his deputy Alexei Sankeev, Deputy Minister of Health of the region Albert Navasardyan and four other people. Read more here.

1918-1946

The health department within the region was subordinate to the executive committee of the Kuibyshev Regional Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies (since 1940 - Workers' Deputies for their main activities - People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR, since 1946 - to the USSR Ministry of Health).

On the basis of the regional health department, the Kuibyshev regional health department arose. Tentatively - this is February 1937 (the book of orders until February 1 is kept mainly on behalf of the Regional Health Department, and from February 1 already the Regional Health Department).

In December 1936, in connection with the adoption of the new Constitution of the USSR and the transformation of the Kuibyshev Territory into the Kuibyshev Region, the regional institutions of state power and administration were reorganized into regional ones.

The first information about the activities of the provincial health department is mentioned in archival documents in November 1918.

Name Change History

In the period from 1918 to the present, the health care authority of the Samara region bore the following names:

• Samara Provincial Department of Health - November 1918-1928;
• Central Volga Regional Health Department - 1928-1930;
• Middle Volga Regional Health Department - 1930-1935;
• Health Department of the Executive Committee of the Kuibyshev Regional Council of Workers' Deputies - 1935-1977;
• Health Department of the Executive Committee of the Kuibyshev Regional Council of People's Deputies - 1977 - 20.12.1989 (Order of 20.12.1989 No. 531);
• Health Department of the Executive Committee of the Kuibyshev Regional Council of People's Deputies - 20.12.1989 - 25.01.1991 (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of 25.01.1991 No. 526-1);
• Health Department of the Executive Committee of the Samara Regional Council of People's Deputies - 25.01.1991 - 27.01.1992 (Resolution of the Administration of 27.01.1992);
• Health Department of the Administration of the Samara Region - 27.01.1992 - May 1996 (Resolution of 26.09.1996 No. 385);
• The Main Directorate of Health of the Administration of the Samara Region is 1.10.1996 - 2.10.2000 (Decree of the Governor of 2.10.2000 No. 305);
• Department of Health of the Administration of the Samara Region - 2.10.2000 - 19.01.2004 (Decree of the Governor of 19.01.2004 No. 18);
• Ministry of Health of the Samara Region - 19.01.2004 - 10.10.2006 (Decree of the Governor of 10.10.2006 No. 231);
• Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Samara Region - October 2006 - to the present.