Main Military Medical Directorate (Russia)
Now, it is part of the Russian Armed Forces which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.
The headquarters is located in the Main Building of the Ministry of Defense at Znamenka 19, Moscow, Russia.
[1] Previously, military corps in Russia were formed as Medical Expedition in the Russian Army (Медицинская экспедиция при Военного Министерства России) in, 1805.
In 1909, it was renamed to 'Main Military Sanitary Directorate' (Главное военно-санитарное управление).
More than 100,000 medical specialists are working in the Military medicine system, including 23,000 doctors.
Sanitary unit which formed in Saint-Petersburg on March 11, 1904, and was sent to Russian Far East.
Photo by Carl Bulla for "Niva" Journal.
Photo by Carl Bulla for "Niva" Journal.
Sanitary detachment marching in Moscow streets, November 20, 1941.
