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The 2025 National Award for outstanding achievements in charity work was awarded to Alexei ZAROV.
Born on October 27, 1977, in Moscow, Alexei Zarov is Director and Chief Medical Officer at the Metropolitan of Moscow St Alexis Central Clinical Hospital.
After graduating from the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy in 2000 with a degree in traumatology and orthopaedics, Alexei Zarov went on to study at the Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, where he obtained a degree in the Economics and Management of Healthcare Institutions in 2010.
In 1996, he joined the intensive care and resuscitation department at the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No 1, and later worked at the Clinical Hospital No. 123 of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia.
Alexei Zarov has been working at the St Alexis Central Clinical Hospital since 2009. Appointed its Chief Medical Officer in 2016, he became the hospital’s director in 2017. In addition to working at the hospital, Alexei Zarov also teaches at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
He has held the position of Head of the Palliative Care Joint Department at Yaroslavl State Medical University since 2023.
Since 2022, he has overseen the provision of medical assistance at St Alexis Hospital to over 50,000 people from Russia’s historical regions who suffered during hostilities.
It was at his personal initiative that the hospital opened training centres in Sevastopol and Simferopol in 2024. These centres provided training for 8,000 assistant nurses. Alexei Zarov also made a proactive contribution to bringing the centres’ graduates together into sororities of medical nurses in Gorlovka, Makeyevka, Lugansk, Donetsk, Feodosia, Kerch and other cities.
Alexei Zarov also created and was personally involved in the work of two mobile hospitals in the special military operation zone. General practitioners and surgeons have already treated over 5,000 patients at the first hospital, while the second hospital played a major role in dealing with the humanitarian disaster after the Kakhovskaya Hydropower Plant was destroyed in the Kherson Region.
Over 2,200 wounded and injured patients in the special military operation zone have received medical services since March 2022.
In Moscow, his hospital receives anyone seeking medical assistance, including people from other cities and the homeless, as well as refugees from Ukraine.
The President of the Russian Federation issued an instruction in December 2025 to develop palliative care in Russia’s historical regions at Alexei Zarov’s proposal.