The history of founding the museum of gunshot wounds of the period of Great Patriotic war at the department of general anatomy at Military medical academy named after S.V. Kirov
In the years of the Great Patriotic war the Soviet medical officers encounter unstudied types of gunshot wounds which were caused by new types of weapons applied by the enemy. There was a need to develop a powerful educational and scientific base, capable to provide high level of studying of gunshot wounds and to synthesize the war experience of giving medical care to the wounded. Mobile pathoanatomical laboratories which collected and documentarily issued a collection of pathoanatomical preparations were founded by the Orders 402 and 403 of the Chief of the General military and sanitary department of red army. More than 40 years this collection was in the military-medical museum where the part of the collection lost its demonstration properties, and separate preparations came to full worthlessness. In november, 1988, thanks to the efforts of professor I.V. Gaivoronskii, the collection was transferred to the jurisdiction to the Head of the department of normal anatomy of the Military medical academy named after of S.M. of Kirov. Under the supervision of professor P.S. Pashenko the collection was subjected to the restoration by specially developed technique, the concept of the museum of gunshot wounds was founded, the preparations of the museum were placed and include 3 sections. The first section «Gunshot wounds of locomotive apparatus» is presented by two windows in whicht the injuries of the body and extremities are demonstrated (54 preparations). Furthermore this section includes the skull injures – 19 preparations. The second section «Gunshot wounds of internal organs» includes 4 windows: gunshot wounds of kidneys – 9 preparations, of heart – 12 preparations, of respiratory apparatus – 18 preparations, of gastrointestinal tract – 18 preparations. The third section is devoted to the gunshot wounds of central nervous system – 22 preparations. The museum of gunshot wounds for years of its existence has been enriched with statistical data of gunshot wounds of the period of the Great Patriotic war, of the war in Afghanistan, the Chechen company, as well as the material of modern methods of diagnostics and treatment of gunshot wounds. The museum is used as a training unit for systematic study.