Memory of Russia: "Faces of Victory" exhibition to open in the Russian Museum of Military Medicine in Saint-Petersburg

"Faces of Victory" exhibition will be opened in The Russian Museum of Military Medicine in Saint-Petersburg on February 6, 2020. 

The Russian Museum of Military Medicine presents an exhibition of sculptural portraits of outstanding wartime doctors - P. A. Kupriyanov, N. N. Elansky, I. I. Dzhanelidze, E. A. Smirnov, M. N. Akhutin, A. V. Vishnevsky, N. N. Burdenko, and others. The exhibition features the works of the masters of the Soviet sculpture - Vera Mukhina, Victor Sinaisky, Mikhail Anikushin and others.

The "Faces of Victory" exhibition focuses on outstanding doctors and scientists, who did tremendous work during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), their contribution has no analogs in history. Soviet medicine became a strategically important tool for the forthcoming Victory.

The most important achievement of Soviet military medicine during World War II was the development and implementation of a unified scientific military medical doctrine, including a system of staged treatment with evacuation. It featured the maximum approach of medical care to the front line, the sorting of patients and wounded, a clear regulation of the styles and methods of diagnosis, medical care, and treatment.

Thanks to the effective work of leading epidemiologists and the entire medical service, major epidemics were avoided for the first time in Russian military history.

Front-line doctors served in the same conditions as soldiers and officers of the Red Army. They had the same chances of survival like the ordinary soldiers while operating, bandaging, evacuating the wounded under the enemy's bullets and bombs.

The exhibition will run until June 2020.