Scientific potential of military medicine in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945)
- Authors: Kotiv B.N.1, Ganapolsky V.P.1, Tsygan V.N.1, Fomin N.F.1, Korovin A.E.1,2, Ovchinnikov D.V.1
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Affiliations:
- S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Issue: Vol 40, No 3 (2021)
- Pages: 75-82
- Section: History of medicine
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/RMMArep/article/view/77459
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/rmmar77459
- ID: 77459
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Abstract
Reconstruction of the historical and scientific-practical heritage of the military-medical and scientific potential of the country during the Great Patriotic War is of enduring relevance. Already by 1940, more than 250 specialized scientific institutions were created in relation to theoretical, preventive and clinical medicine in which more than 21,000 scientific workers worked (of them 2394 doctors and 5025 candidates of sciences). During the war, the scientific potential of military medicine continued to be strengthened (4 academicians, 22 honored scientists, 275 professors, 556 associate professors, 306 doctors and 1199 candidates of sciences).
The Military Medical Academy played an important role in solving scientific problems. Active scientific work continued not only in the departments and laboratories of the Academy, but also at the fronts. Scientists of the academy prepared many instructions and instructions on various issues of military medicine, which contributed to the improvement of the system of medical support for troops on the basis of military field medical doctrine. For the first time, methods have been developed for planning medical support for combat and issues of organizing medical support for army and front-line operations.
The practical significance of the principles of the military field doctrine developed during the Great Patriotic War was repeatedly confirmed by the experience of medical support of Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan, as well as in the provision of medical assistance during counter-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus (9 figs, bibliography: 5 refs).
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##article.viewOnOriginalSite##About the authors
Bogdan N. Kotiv
S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
Email: vmeda-nio@mil.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5609-0517
SPIN-code: 4038-0855
M.D., D.Sc. (Medicine), Professor
Russian Federation, 6, Akademika Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg, 194044Vyacheslav P. Ganapolsky
S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
Email: ganvp@mail.ru
SPIN-code: 9872-8841
Scopus Author ID: 294755
M.D., D.Sc. (Medicine)
Russian Federation, 6, Akademika Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg, 194044Vasiliy N. Tsygan
S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
Email: vn-t@mail.ru
SPIN-code: 7215-6206
Scopus Author ID: 6603136317
M.D., D.Sc. (Medicine), Professor
Russian Federation, 6, Akademika Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg, 194044Nikolay F. Fomin
S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
Email: fominmed@mail.ru
M.D., D.Sc. (Medicine), Professor
Russian Federation, 6, Akademika Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg, 194044Aleksandr E. Korovin
S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy; Saint Petersburg State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: korsyrik@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5507-6975
SPIN-code: 6157-4453
Scopus Author ID: 56001373500
ResearcherId: C-2401-2018
M.D., D.Sc. (Medicine), Associate Professor
Russian Federation, 6, Akademika Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg, 194044; Saint PetersburgDmitrii V. Ovchinnikov
S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
Email: dv.ovchinnikov-vma@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8408-5301
SPIN-code: 5437-3457
Scopus Author ID: 36185599800
M.D., Ph.D. (Medicine), Associate Professor
Russian Federation, 6, Akademika Lebedeva str., Saint Petersburg, 194044References
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