1 Department of Public Health and Healthcare, First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), 119991 Moscow, Russia. resh1960@mail.ru.
2 Department of Public Health and Healthcare, First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), 119991 Moscow, Russia. arsevgen22@gmail.com.
3 Department of Human Pathology, First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), 119991 Moscow, Russia. bolevich2011@yandex.ru.
4 Faculty of Business and Management, National Research University Higher Schools of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia. y.timofeyev@hse.ru.
5 Department of Global Health Economics and Policy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia. sidartagothama@gmail.com.
6 Division of Health Economics, Lund University, SE 220 07 Lund, Sweden. sidartagothama@gmail.com.
The evolution of epidemiological burden in Imperial Russia and, consecutively, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), took place mostly over the duration of the past century [...].