Krasnoyarsk evacuation hospital № 1515 — a center of military field surgery of the country in 1941— 1943 years: little known and unknown in the work of a prominent surgeon V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky (St. Luka)

Abstract

The article is devoted to a detailed and comprehensive description of specialization, key performance
indicators and physical condition of evacuation hospital № 1515, largest in the Krasnoyarsk
region which was deployed during the great Patriotic war in the city of Krasnoyarsk, where professor
V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky (St. Luka), a world renowned surgeon worked. The author noted the official

position of the exiled V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky with consideration of recently identified information on
the status of the doctor-surgeon, head of the medical Department of the hospital. The author laid out
information on the features and diversity of the operations, as well as the evidence of some unique
scientific experiments, done by V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky, the results of which were important for military
field surgery in the Soviet Union. Since most of the information is given in the article for the first time,
they greatly complement articles of the military period of life and work of V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky
and hospital № 1515. The study can be useful to historians doing research in the field of health care
during the second world war, as well as studying the life and work of V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky.