Bashkuev V Yu, Ratmanov P E
The State Budget Institution «The Far-Eastern Institute of Mongolistics, Buddology and Tibetology of the Siberian Branch of The Russian Academy of Sciences, 670047, Ulan-Ude, Russia,
The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education "The Far-Eastern State Medical University" of Minzdrav of Russia, 680000, Khabarovsk, Russia.
Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med. 2020 Nov;28(6):1395-1400. doi: 10.32687/0869-866X-2020-28-6-1395-1400.
The article proceeds to analyze the results of the study of organizational forms of Soviet assistance to the Mongolian People's Republic in the field of medicine and health care. The characteristics of organization and activities of the first, second, and subsequent medical sanitary expeditions of the Narkomzdrav of the RSFSR in Mongolia. The new archival documents are introduced into scientific circulation, allowing to verify critical assessment of activities of the first expedition under direction of A. A. Frantsuzov presented in in the reports of G. V. Ivitsky, the member of the expedition. The relationship between the second medical sanitary expedition staff, the Mongolian government and the Soviet physicians at Mongolian service are considered in detail. The role of medical sanitary expeditions as special form of Soviet assistance to Mongolia, allowing to resolve at the same time several tasks of local and strategic nature, and their contribution into the development of the Mongolian health care at early stages is highlighted.
