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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-212Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Voenno-meditsinskii muzei (VMM)Previous names
A museum-archive was organized within the medical services of the Red Army to provide for the scientific information and processing needs for medical records of wartime army medical brigades. The Military Medical Museum was first established in Moscow in February 1943 as the Museum of the Military Medical Service of the Red Army, and its first exhibits were opened in April in an evacuation hospital for the Western Front. Since October 1943, it has been called the Military Medical Museum, initially with separate research divisions to study wartime experience. It was transferred to Leningrad in 1945 and housed in a reconstructed building, which had initially been used as a military field hospital for the Semenov Regiment. Opened to the public in 1951, the museum serves simultaneously as a scientific research center, a public museum for cultural enlightenment and military medical exhibits, and a reference center for medical records. The Archive of Military Medical Records is under the jurisdiction of the Archival Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (see C–04). The Scientific Library of the museum was started in Moscow in 1943 and transferred to Leningrad with the museum in 1945. |
