[The formation and development of the organization and tactics of the Naval Medical Service as an academic and scientific discipline].

Formation and development of the Navy medical service started back in the 30th of the XXth century. In 1938 they created a naval and marine sanitary disciplines' Chair which was successively a component of the Navy faculty of the 1st Leningrad Institute of Medicine, Naval Academy of Medicine and from 1956--a part of the Academy of Military Medicine. For 60 years of its existence, the Chair has implemented nearly 350 fundamental research projects, more than 50 directives, edited some 60 textbooks and manuals and over 60 theses were defended.

[Medical support for the naval forces in armed conflicts and local wars].

The authors give the analysis of medical maintenance of local wars and military conflicts of the last decades. Peculiarities of the combat actions, system of treatment and evacuation measures, peculiarities of rendering of all kinds of the medical care are considered. Are formulated the regulations, necessary for inclusion of domestic hospital ships and units of marine corps in structure of forming mobile forces for action on seaside directions.