Shabsay Davidovich Moshkovsky (1895—1982; Russian: Шабсай Давидович Мошковский) was a Soviet physician, infectious disease scientist and epidemiologist with a particular interest in malaria.
[1] His father was Dovid-Behr Iosifovich Moshkovsky, a teacher in a Jewish elementary school, who was shot amongst a group of 35 hostages on March 5, 1919.
[1] Moshkovsky graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow State University in 1919 and was then drafted into the Red Army, where he served from 1919 to 1920.
He organized the Department of Medical Parasitology of the Central Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians (CIUV) from 1935.
[2] He was a corresponding Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1946), and a recognized expert of the World Health Organization.