Antiepidemic support of the Red Army troops during the years of the Great Patriotic War

The fascist Germany attack upon our country on June 22, 1941, immediately posed the task of preserving sanitary-and-epidemiological well-being and preventing the carrying of infectious diseases into the forces as the most important defensive one. The leaders of the Main Military-Sanitary Directorate of the Red Army could solve the complex task of providing the forces with a package of measures, which included the concentration of forces and agents for washing, disinfectant, and laundering provision of the troops in the hands of the medical services of armies, fronts, and the center, the creation of antiepidemic barriers preventing the penetration of infectious agents into both the home front and the effective troops, and the wide-spread immunoprophylaxis of infectious diseases.