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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-212Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Voenno-meditsinskii muzei (VMM)Nauchno-issledovatel'skii otdel sbora, nauchnoi obrabotki i khraneniia muzeinykh fondov [Scientific Research Division of Accession, Processing, and Preservation of Museum Fonds] Website: http://milmed.spb.ru/museum/aboutmuseum/ Opening hours: M–F 9:00–17:00Holdings Total: ca. 210,000 units; 1843–1990s (some documents 1792–1838) archival collections—ca. 25,000 units; written sources—over 55,400 units; photographic materials—over 296,000 units; films—30; graphics (drawings, watercolors, engravings)—ca. 1,700 units; personal papers—over 40,500 units; albums—1,900 units Historical archival materials are held in the Scientific Research Division for Collection, Scientific Processing, and Preservation of Museum Fonds. Documentation in various collections, personal fonds, and audiovisual holdings pertains to the development of Russian military medicine from its beginnings to the present day, and show medical aid in practice both at the front and in the rear. Documentary collections include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medical textbooks, as well as a wide variety of other historic materials relating to military medicine. There are over 300 fonds with personal papers of army medical personnel (18th–19th cc.). These include fonds of such famous nineteenth- and twentieth-century doctors as N.I. Pirogov, S.P. Botkin, G.I. Turner, V.A. Oppel', A.A. Vishnevskii, N.N. Burdenko, E.N. Pavlovskii, and L.A. Orbeli. Personal papers include medical studies and related materials (manuscripts of monographs and articles), biographical documents, correspondence, and memoirs. The vast photographic holdings document work of the military medical services starting with the early twentieth century, but most of the photographs relate to the period of World War II. There is a special collection of pictures of statues, tombstones, and other memorials to military doctors throughout the former USSR. Drawings retained are mostly those done at the front. There are copies of films on the work of medical institutions and teaching hospitals, as well as the life and work of famous doctors. Working conditions: Researchers are accommodated in the staff working offices. Files should be ordered in advance. |
