ветеринарная медицина, ветеринария, Великая Отечественная война, ВОВ, истори

Smaliak, Y. A.

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UDC 611.7SMALIAK Y.A., studentScientific supervisor KRUCHANKOVA T.N., senior lecturer EE “Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine”,Vitebsk, Republic of BelarusVETERINARY SERVICE IN THE YEARS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WARThe military successes of the Armed Forces during the Second World War was fully contributed by the rear services of the Red Army. A worthy place among them was occupied by the military veterinary service. Its importance during the war was determined by the needs of the army in large number of horses and other mili­tary animals.From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, the main tasks of the military veterinary service was: preventive, anti-epizootic and medical evacuation of the horse composition, as well as veterinary and sanitary supervision of benign meat and other animal products coming into the army. Besides horses at veterinary secu­rity and maintenance were large and small cattle, thousands of military dogs, and animals abandoned by the population, evacuated from the areas of combat opera­tions.The main medical work throughout the war was assigned to veterinary surge­ons. The proportion of surgical diseases increased every year, and amounted to 50­70% of the total incidence. For the first time in the history of Russian veterinary military field surgery has been allocated in the isolated clinical industry. During the period of World War II were re-developed treatment sections of lesions of the with­ers, joints, thoracic, abdomen and hooves; methods and ways of imposing immobi­lization bandages and others. There were also many surgical methods of treatment, including such wounds which once considered hopeless, and horses with such inju­ries in most cases were destroyed. Also, military veterinary service was faced with anextreme disadvantage diseases common to humans and animals, such as anthrax, glanders, tuberculosis, brucellosis, foot and mouth disease, etc.A major role in providing аrmy meat and other animal products played veteri­nary and sanitary supervision. It provides ante-mortem inspection of animals and veterinary-sanitary examination of meat and meat products, control of their trans­portation and storage. Distinctly organized veterinary-sanitary supervision contri­buted to the prevention the personnel from infectious diseases transmitted from an­imals through food, as well as from the mass outbreaks of food poisoning and intox­ications.In general, during the war years military veterinary service has successfully coped with the tasks of providing all the necessary products for the combat troops of the army.372РЕПОЗИТОРИЙ УО ВГАВМ

Veterinary service in the years of the Great Patriotic war

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Veterinary service in the years of the Great Patriotic war

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