[Medical service of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War].

The article presents an analyze of contribution of military medicine in victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Nevertheless big difficulties the medical service has effectuated deployment of network of medical units and institutes, organization of effective work of delivery of medical care on frontline and in rear of country. For the first time in the history of official military-medical service, it transformed from service of regard for ill and wounded persons in service of securing by men resources of active army. Experience of medical securing is as well actual nowday, as years ago. In a big quantity of questions the service saves it's practical value in complex solving of questions of modern military medicine.