The military surgical legacy of Vladimir Oppel (1872-1932).

Vladimir A. Oppel (1872-1932) was a forefather of military trauma systems. As a surgeon in the Russian Army in World War I, Oppel experienced the challenges and inefficiencies associated with caring for large numbers of combat wounded, the inefficiencies he observed leading to unacceptable morbidity and mortality.

[The world first department and clinic of military field surgery].

The authors show the main stages of field surgery formation in our country emphasizing the merits of V. Villie, N. Pirogov, V.