Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»250210.25742/NRIPH.2022.04.021Материалы конференцииLessons learned from war injuries in children during the post-war period in the USSR (1946-1950)AlbitskiyValeriy Yu.albicky1941@yandex.ruSherStella A.anastel@mail.ruUstinovaNataliya V.ust-doctor@mail.ruResearch Institute of Pediatrics and Children’s Health in Scientific Clinical Center # 2 of «Russian Scientific Center for Surgery named after academician B. V. Petrovsky»15122022411511825112022Copyright © 2022,2022The article presents the results of historical and medical research, indicating a high level of injuries among the child population in the USSR in the post-war period (1946⸻1950) and reflecting the upcoming measures to struggle with such an important medical and social problem as childhood military traumatism. An analysis of the archival documents of the USSR Ministry of Health and the scientific works of scientists indicates that, despite a slight decrease of the child military injuries level in large cities by 1948, in many regions further work was required to develop children's orthopedics. In this regard, the central health authorities in 1949 convened the All-Union Conference on Childhood Traumatism and Orthopedics and initiated a number of important measures for helping children with diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system, including the deployment of traumatology and orthopedics institutions, active identification of children, who needed the use of prosthetic and orthopedic products, the organization of sanatorium schools for children and adolescents who required long-term orthopedic treatment, the creation of conditions for their normal education and adaptation to work skills.childhood military traumatismchildren's traumatology and orthopedicspost-war period in the USSR (1946 1950)детский военный травматизмдетская травматология и ортопедияпослевоенный период в СССР (1946 1950 гг.)[Гольдфельд А. Я. Очерки по истории педиатрии СССР. М.: Медицина, 1970.][Гречишникова Л. В. Охрана материнства и детства в СССР. Руководство по педиатрии. М.: Медицина, 1965. Том Х: 731-761.][Калугина М. Н., Броцкая С. М., Зборовская Ф. И. Физическое развитие и состояние здоровья школьников Красногвардейского района г. Москвы в 1944 г. В кн.: Информационный сборник Института педиатрии АМН СССР. М., 1946: 53-54.]