The Evacuation of Wounded and Sick Soldiers of the Russian Army During World War I

Shaposhnikov G.N., Ayrapetova I.V., Lyamzin A.V.

Medical University «Ural State Medical University» the Ministry of Health, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation;
FGAOU VPO “UFU behalf of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin”, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation

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

Key words: World War I, health security, evacuation, irrevocable and sanitary losses.

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Authors
Shaposhnikov Gennadiy N. history@usma.ru
Ural State Medical University; PhD, Professor, Chair of history, economy and law
3 Repina st. Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, 620219

Airapetova Irina V. history@usma.ru
Ural State Medical University; PhD, Associate Professor, Chair of history, economy and
law
3 Repina st. Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, 620219

Lyamzin Andrey V. lyamzin@mail.ru
«Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin»;
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations
51 Lenina st. Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, 620000