[The organization of the command of the rear hospital bases in the USSR during World War II].

In the result of studies of the concrete materials (archives, official, scientific and other historical data) about the work of hospital bases of the strategic rear (HBSR) on the territory of the Siberia region the author gives characteristic features of the commanding system of HBSR in 1941-1945, evaluating the positive experience of cooperation between the Popular Commissariat of Health of the USSR and the Main Military Sanitary Department of the Red Army, i.e. two main institutions which were conducting immediate direction over the activities of evacuation hospitals of the strategic rear of the country. In the author's opinion, these data could be used not only as historical materials. The article contains various considerations of the former commanding officers of the medical department of Siberian Military District, as well as the opinion of the Chief of the MMSD E. I. Smirnov about the system of subordination throughout the chain of command of evacuation hospitals of the strategic rear of the country.