HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL SERVICE OF THE NORTHERN FLEET (1933-2020)
During its 88-year history, the Northern fleet medical service has passed a difficult and thorny path of formation, development and improvement. After passing through the crucible of the great Patriotic war, overcoming the difficulties of the postwar period, and in subsequent years of construction and development of the Northern fleet - the repeated transform in search of optimal structure and size for the most efficient management significant on the composition and structure of forces and means, organization of medical and preventive, sanitary and anti epidemic work, unin-terrupted supply of Navy medicine and the saturation of the most modern medical equipment. The most important component of the fleet medical service in all historical periods was the organization of medical support for ships and submarines in the far sea zone, military contingents in the Arctic zone. the Medical service is currently the main management body of the military medical institutions and medical services of military units of the Northern fleet.