Leningrad Health Care was assigned a central role in medical care of wounded and sick during the Soviet-Finnish war during 1939-1940. The outbreak of war in Leningrad and its suburbs, as well as a number of settlements adjacent to the front-line rear areas, was deployed hospital bed net hospital base of the front. Medical institutions of Leningrad, serve the needs of the army and navy, were not uniform in its structure. They had different departmental subordination, as well as the nature and scope of tasks. During the period from December 1, 1939 to September 1, 1940 in Leningrad, has received 167 915 persons. In the City there was a range of institutions, where the wounded and sick have finished a course of treatment, as well as rehabilitated.

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