[Marketing and the distribution of passes to health resorts of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation].

Social and economic reforms in Russia have resulted in the appearance of the recreation services market. To coordinate its activities with orientation to consumers the Department of vouchers' distribution and realisation was set up in February 1998 in scientific methodology center in Marfino Central Military Clinical Sanatorium. The article deals with the Department's attempts to introduce principles of the market economy into the work practice of the military health resorts and sanatoria.