Messola Pogorelsky

Messola Pogorelsky (Мессель Викентьевич Погорельский; born 7 March 1862) was a Russian physician and writer.

Pogorelsky was born to a Jewish family in Bobruisk, and educated at the gymnasium of his native town. He completed his medical degree at the University of Saint Vladimir in Kiev in 1890. In the same year he was appointed crown rabbi of Kherson, a position which he held until 1893. He was a prolific writer on medical and on Jewish subjects. His medical essays appeared in the St. Petersburger Medicinische Wochenschrift, the Russkaya Meditzina, and other Russian periodicals.