[The hospital care of civilian population during the first two years of the Great Patriotic War].

The article presents, on the basis of archival documents and literature sources, the distribution and placement of hospital staff, staffing of physicians and nurses, support of population with medical personnel and medications, changes in beds stock, equipment of hospital institutions on the unoccupied territories of the USSR. An increase of workload, volume and intensity of labor of personnel of civil health care during the first two years of the Great Patriotic War was established. The unreadiness of the Narkomzdrav (the USSR People's Commissariat of Health Care) for making optimal decisions concerning the rational application of human resources in the beginning of the war is proved.