Russian vodka celebrates his 145th on Sunday Birthday. The doctors show shock at the devastating scale of alcohol consumption in the country.At 31 January 1865 has presented the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, his doctoral thesis on “On the combination of alcohol and water.” Now this research is seen as a long time for the Russian “national drink” with alcohol content of 40% volume percent.
The chief doctor of the Russian Ministry of Health Drug, Yevgeny Brjun said, RIA Novosti, Mendeleev had the consequences of his discovery can hardly predict. Russia was in the 19th Century, a “fairly sober Land” was. In some regions there was a total trade ban on alcohol.
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