[Treatment of patients with burns in surgical clinics of Leningrad hospitals in 1920-1930s].

Objective: To reconstruct the events of early period of Soviet school of combustiology (1920-1930s) via analysis and systematization of clinical and experimental studies devoted to burns and performed in the Leningrad medical institutes in 1920-1930s.

Material And Methods: We analyzed various reports by employees of the Leningrad medical institutes devoted to practice and theory of burn treatment within the above-mentioned historical period.

Results: Analysis of Soviet and foreign reports for 1920-1930s made it possible to systematize data on the treatment of burns in the Leningrad medical institutes for the period from the mid-1920s to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.