Studying of military hygiene in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red army

Abstract

The military hygiene as a subject in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red army began to revive after the civil war. However, the textbooks, teaching guides and guidebooks appeared before 1917 were not accepted for training of the Red Army men and command staff. There was no unified departmental schedule on teaching of military hygiene in educational divisions and institutions provided by the authorities. Separate teaching guides on military hygiene were created initiatively and were intended for training of the Red army men in elementary rules of personal and public hygiene and prevention of infectious diseases, injuries, poisonings, and other health deteriorations. For example, in the Military Electrotechnical Academy of the Workers ‘and Peasants’ Red Army named after Budjonny developed a manual on military hygiene, which for many years was widely used for teaching military hygiene. The majority of educational and methodical materials of this period was created for military doctors. One of the active scientists and teachers of that period was a professor Fyodor GrigorievichKrotkov (1896–1983) who afterwards became the social leader, the Hero of Socialist Labor. F.G. Krotkov formed creative group with which he created the Reference book (1931) and the Guide to military hygiene (1933) which became a basis for the subsequent educational and scientific works on military hygiene. However, before the start of the Great Patriotic War, military hygiene was never introduced as a compulsory educational discipline in the educational process of military schools. In our opinion, the fundamentals of military hygiene must be known to every soldier, and especially to the officer corps, which requires their inclusion in promising medical training programs of all military training organizations.

Keywords

hygiene / militaryhygiene / academic discipline / Workers and Peasants Red Army / RedArmyman / commandstaff / educational process / Military Medical Academy / F.G. Krotkov

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