The article analyzes the health network of Siberian cities in the Great Patriotic war. The author studies the structure and dynamics of healthcare agencies, shows in what conditions they carried out their functions. The study is based on the analysis of the documents of the State archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian state archive of socio-political history, and regional archives of Siberian cities. Using the archival sources the author came to the conclusion that throughout the war the public health network was underdeveloped, especially the massive influx of evacuees in the Siberian region is taken into consideration. This factor significantly hampered the provision of qualified medical assistance to the population of Siberia.

public health network, health departments, medioprophylactic institutions, sanitary and epidemic institutions, clinics, aid posts

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