Sanitary Training of Troops

Sanitary training of personnel and implementation of medical and sanitary measures in the theater of military operations, during the presence and deployment of troops on the front line and in temporary quartering areas, as well as after the end of hostilities. It is carried out by the forces and means of the sanitary service and includes the use of medical supplies, the prevention of infectious diseases, the organization of food and water supply, medical evacuation, isolation of infectious patients, patients with brain contusions, frostbite, etc., treatment of the wounded, evacuation from the battlefield and treatment in hospitals and medical institutions. In peacetime, sanitary training of troops is also carried out to prepare troops for action in special conditions. Usually carried out in training centers attached to military units. When starting to prepare this material, I remembered from the literature a mention of the sanitization of many kilometers of the road near Kazan, so that enemy soldiers would not step on mutilated, rotting compatriots. So, let's write this?

Sanitary training was introduced by order No. 306 of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR dated September 12, 1940[7]. Its main goal was to prepare all categories of military personnel for painless participation in battles and increase their physical endurance.

According to the order, N.F. Vatutin ordered the Sanitary Service of the Red Army: during September and October 1939, to conduct 41 mass training events (training camps) throughout the country lasting from three days to several weeks. Such training sessions were held before battles; in the rear, away from combat positions, without disturbing the normal order of life of the armed forces. This order remained unrealized in full due to the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War.

A number of closed sanitary and resort institutions were built: a sanatorium with a course for test pilots, a special-purpose sanatorium in Barvikha, a special medical unit in Sochi. During this period, for the first time, they began to use recreation in Artek, various medical procedures in the sanatoriums of Tuapse, Chernomorskoye, Crimea, Nalchik, Tskaltubo, Kuba and Kamchatka (sanitary resort), Krasnaya Pakhra and Yartsevo. A sanatorium stage of rehabilitation was opened after the hostilities in the Vyazma region,