[Establishment of national naval hospitals in the XVIII century]

The first naval hospitals were established in St. Petersburg, Revel and Kronstadt, Kazan, Revel, Astrakhan and Archangel. The question when the first hospitals were opened is still controversial because of the lack of many documents of those years. Researchers disagree, probably because of the fact that they take into account different timeframes for the project of a hospital corps. Regardless of whether you will find unequivocal, direct evidence for their discoveries in a given year, the value of the old hospital as medical institutions will not change. Much more important is the fact of their education because of intense activity of the domestic fleet. In the creation of naval hospitals as in anything else to take care of the state of preservation, strengthening and restoring the health of personnel, of which largely depended on the readiness of the fleet.