About regional peculiarities of pharmacy business organization in the USSR during the Great Ratriotic War on the example of the Smolensk region

the article is devoted to the topic of regional peculiarities of pharmacy organization in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War using the example of the Smolensk region. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the specifics of the organization of pharmaceutical supplies to the rear of the Smolensk region and some regions of the RSFSR and the BSSR during the Great Patriotic War. The novelty of the study is determined by the extreme narrowness of the range of available regional studies, the presence of factual differences in them caused only partly by regional specifics. Of course, the relevance is reinforced by the conduct of military operations and the presence of a threat to the security of the Russian Federation, which, despite the significant difference in the nature of warfare and the level of development of the pharmaceutical industry and logistics, invariably draws the attention of researchers and practitioners to the heroic experience of their predecessors The paper substantiates the provisions that the Smolensk region at the beginning of the war had a fairly high availability of pharmacy facilities. As a border region, it was subjected to severe destruction. The border location and great strategic importance determined the location of evacuation hospitals here. The acute shortage of medicines was compensated by the centralized redistribution of drugs available in warehouses and the introduction of innovative methods of using existing drugs, as well as the development of galena production. A comparative analysis of the drug supply situations in the Smolensk region, the Orenburg region, Belarus, Siberia and Kabardino-Balkaria is given. When comparing the data from different territories, it is obvious that the Smolensk region had a particularly rich, already researched base for galena production. However, the border situation dictated the role of a supplier of raw materials, but not a manufacturer of galenic preparations.

pharmacy, supply, Main Pharmacy Department, pharmacy, evacuation hospital, Smolensk region, occupation, Great Patriotic War