[The leaders of the fleet medical service in World War II].

The hard trials experienced by the Navy and its medical staff during the Great Patriotic War were caused by the emergency situation which was accompanied with a sudden disarrangement in the deployment of medical assets. Serious shortages were revealed at that perios as far as organization of mass casualty staging from blockaded Navy bases is concerned. But when the combat experience was obtained the activities of Navy medical service were improved. Physicians of different specialties,--administrative officers, surgeons, internists, epidemiologists, etc--have enhance their professional skills. The corps of Senior medical specialists had played a great role in organization of medical support of fleets and flotillas, in the development of theory and practice of national navy medicine. The positive results of the activities of Navy medicine were also obtained by dedicated work of the medical service leaders of Fleets: F. F.Andreev, G. A.Babkin, V. R.Bauder, S. N.Zolotukhin, A. M.Zotov, M. N.Kravchenko, M. Ia.Krivoshein, A. G.Nazarov, A. V.Smol'nikov, I. A.Tolkachev. Navy physicians succeeded in providing an opportune medical care to seamen in the years of war.