Lydia Feodosievna Timashuk (21 November 1898-6 September 1983) was a Soviet Russian cardiologist who presided over the fabrication of the anti-Semitic "Doctors' Plot" in 1951-1953. Lydia Feodosievna Timashuk was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire in 1898, and she became a medic in 1920.

In 1948, an allegation was made by a Soviet veteran medical worker, Lydia Timashuk, who stated that "intentional distortions in medical conclusions [were] made by major medical experts who served as consultants in the hospital".

May 23, 2024 · An opportunity to do so was provided by a letter to him by Dr Lydia Timashuk, a radiologist, who claimed that several leaders of the Soviet Union including Zhdanov were deliberately misdiagnosed, thereby shortening their lives.

Sep 3, 2018 · The most famous figure of this case is a cardiologist Lydia Timashuk, from whose letters with accusations against Zhdanov professors treated all supposedly began. January 20, 1953, she was awarded the order of Lenin, and on 3 April took it away.

Mar 26, 2020 · Lydia Timashuk, who “told” of the CPSU Central Committee about the secret scheme of doctors-saboteurs, was awarded the Order of Lenin. It was declared a national heroine, who was “…a symbol of Soviet patriotism, vigilance, uncompromising, courageous fight against the enemies of our homeland”

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 -- Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, revealed today that Dr. Lydia Timashuk, who received the Order of Lenin for her assistance in exposing the alleged plot of nine doctors...

Mar 9, 2021 · The immediate origin was the death in 1948 of Zhdanov, a prominent Soviet leader, in the Kremlin sanatorium at Valdai, near Novgorod. Because of his death, Dr. Lydia Timashuk, responsible for Zhdanov’s latest EKG, sent a secret letter to Stalin’s chief bodyguard, Vlasic.

Mar 14, 2025 · In 1948, an allegation was made by a Soviet veteran medical worker, Lydia Timashuk, who stated that "intentional distortions in medical conclusions [were] made by major medical experts who served as consultants in the hospital".

Aug 24, 2014 · In 1948, an allegation was made by a Dr Lydia Timashuk, described as a “rank-and-file” doctor, against medical experts. She alleged there had been: “intentional distortions in medical conclusions made by major medical experts who served as consultants in the hospital.

May 10, 2017 · The guilt he put that statement Lydia Timashuk, who accused the professors who treated the first persons of the state of sabotage, he left without attention. The Vlasic in memoirs, wrote that there were no grounds to believe Timashuk was not: “No data discrediting professors, was not what I reported to Stalin”.