KEY PERSONNEL OF SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF KRONSTADT HOSPITAL DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Abstract

Human history knows no other such tough time but that fell to the lot of Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. But also it doesn’t know such common heroism, courage and win to victory that Soviet people showed fighting in fields and behind enemy lines every day. It stands to mention selfless work of military medicine. Surgeons and organizers of medical service for wounded were the most essential people that time. Collective of 35-th Kronstadt Naval Hospital that worked on island Cotlin was also in difficult conditions. There was no communication with scientific and educational health care institutions, therefore military medicine had to work in severe conditions of blockade. Surgeon service of Kronstadt Naval Hospital performed a mission properly. Dozens of thousands wounded and sick were kept going and their health recovered. This article is devoted to scientific, clinical and organizational activities of heads of surgery departments of Kronstadt Naval Hospital who worked during the war. Their contribution to the development of native military medicine is shown in the article.