Beregovoi Infirmary

A coastal infirmary is a medical institution (or a branch of a hospital) in pre-revolutionary Russia, deployed at coastal fortifications or ports to provide medical care to the wounded and sick during wartime. The organization of coastal service hospitals at government places was entrusted to military doctors of the central departments (Military Medical Department and General Staff) by a certain state schedule of 1819. The main location of the coastal service infirmary was the naval hospitals of the fleet; of these it is necessary to name: the naval hospital on the Bolshaya Zayaya Bank, near Kronstadt (closed in 1970), the Baltic naval hospitals in Tallinn (Viljandi) and Riga - the latter were closed in 2007-2012; Ukrainian naval hospital located on the Verkhny Beregovoy farm in the Kherson region. There were also temporary medical institutions, which were set up for the duration of the war before the establishment of coastal service naval hospitals.

Coastal infirmary **Coastal infirmary** (from the Latin hospitalis - hospital. Infirmary - a small medical or almshouse. It is used as a term in several meanings: in relation to the army to designate a military medical institution, in relation to seafarers of the navy - military establishment of a ship's hospital on ships).

**This is a military medical facility. **. An obsolete military term meaning "auxiliary medical facility." It arose at the end of the 18th century and was first used by military doctors, then included in the terminology of the medical service. “Auxiliary” - because the infirmary does not occupy a separate building; it is equipped where there is a place for it: in the barracks, Cossack huts, etc. In the naval service infirmary there were wards for sick officers and soldiers, servants, a pharmacy and a workshop