# Armando Córdova Castro

**Date of death:** June 10, 1986

**Categories:** Science, Doctor

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Doctor of Medical Sciences Armando Córdova Castro dies in Havana, founder and head of the Psychiatry Service at Hospital Comandante Manuel Fajardo, where he also created the Day Hospital at that center.

First Cuban to be awarded the Sechenov medal in the USSR for his contributions to neurophysiology