Army medicine during the First World War

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The article explains the development and functioning of an essential military component - medical support wartime - evacuation system. Describes the concept of conservative evacuation, developed in the Russian army at the beginning of the last century, shows the military medical services’ efforts to expand military health care and improve the system of evacuation during World War I. It is noted that, despite significant efforts, the evacua-tion remained the weakest part of Russian military medicine and does not reflect the scale of sanitary losses.

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Gennadiy N. Shaposhnikov

Ural State Medical University

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Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4173-6810
Russian Federation

Vladimir V. Zapariy

First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University

Email: vvzap@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3326-4796

DSc, Professor, Professor, Department of Russian History, Ural Humanitarian Institute of the Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (UrFU), Yekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation.

e-mail: vvzap@mail.ru

Russian Federation

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