ORGANIZATION OF SYSTEM OF KRASNOYARSK EVACUATION HOSPITALS AND V. F. VOYNO-YASENETSKY’S ACTIVITY IN 1941-1943

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to expose relevant organizational and medical areas in formation, functioning and re-evacuation of the system of emergency hospitals in the time of Great Patriotic war (1941-1945) through the example of Krasnoyarsk territory and Krasnoyarsk city, where V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky arranged a powerful system of military health care. The article considers Soviet legislative framework of evacuation of hospitals deep rearward, of establishment of organizational structure (committees, departments), which were to support evacuated hospitals and related local authorities. The article also describes the crucial role of Russian and Soviet Professor-surgeon V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky in Krasnoyarsk hospitals activity. The inextricable link of his medical practice with the activity of evacuation hospitals of Krasnoyarsk and the region is found out, and this link is considered to allow identifying Professor’s surgical talent. The latter is regarded to be the main component of success in treatment of purulent infections and also in saving the soldiers and officers’ body parts in the hospitals deep in the rear in 1941-1943. The currentness of appealing to the issue of the deployment of the emergency hospitals in the city of Krasnoyarsk and the Krasnoyarsk region and of their activity is connected with two facts. Firstly, the issue of war and health in the region have not still received a comprehensive, all-round coverage in historical works (they are mostly represented by small articles in anthologies, magazines and newspapers), which objectively reduces the idea of hard medical work in hospitals deep in the rear. Secondly, it is needed to include immense surgical, scientific, consulting and teaching activities of Professor V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky (St. Luka) in a bulky system of the Krasnoyarsk evacuation hospitals. V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky was working as a leading surgeon and consultant in hospitals at the Krasnoyarsk territory in hard war years (1941-1943). Owing to the Professor, a quantity of gravely ill soldiers and officers had been made alive and returned to the front, and the surgeons of the hospitals in the Krasnoyarsk region had developed new methods of carrying complex operations out.