Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky (Azerbaijani: Ҝригориј Камински Наум оғлу, romanized: Griqoriy Kaminski Naum oğlu, Russian: Григорий Наумович Каминский; 1 November 1895 – 10 February 1938) was a Soviet politician who was the 2nd First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party, and one of founders of the health care system in the Soviet Union.

[2] He became involved in the revolutionary movement as a 16 year old pupil in a Gymnasium in Minsk, in Belarus, distributing Pravda to factory workers.

Aged only 25, he was First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party, chairman of the Baku Commune and Red Army deputies.

[3] With the introduction of the New Economic Policy in 1921, a major concern of the communist party was that the re-introduction of free trade in the countryside would result in rich peasants – known as kulaks exploiting the poor.

In this role, he was an enthusiast advocate of the rapid formation of large collective farms, equipped with tractors and other machinery, which he believed would be the route out of poverty for peasants struggling to subsist on small landholdings.

On 26 December 1936, Pravda published an article deploring the suppression of a bulletin that had been prepared ahead of the Second Congress of Neurologists and Psychiatrists.

He was rebuked for that, and for proposing that Solomon Levit, the founder of soviet genetics, should be elected to the praesidium of the congress, when he had recently been expelled from the communist party.

In an unpublished speech, he maintained that Professor Levit could still contribute usefully to science from outside the party, and warned that "If you declare people to be fascists, you need to know that this threatens them with prison".

The speech that Kaminsky reputedly delivered during a plenary session of the Central Committee of June 1937 was not included in the report, and is known only from hearsay.

The historian Robert Conquest was told by an unnamed source that he spoke "with particular effect and firmness, presenting a full but calm indictment of Yezhov (head of the NKVD) and his methods.