[Who was the head of the General Military Medical Department in 1917-1918]

The article describes the history of the central governing body of the Russian military medicine - the General Military Medical-Department (GMMD) - during the most difficult period of its history - 1917-1918. There is still no clear evidence about the head of GMMD of those times in historical literature. The authors tried to reconstruct the history of GMMD during the revolution, gave the list of chiefs in chronological order on the basis of primary documents of the central military archives. The authors provide some biographical information about professors V.A. Yurevich and N.N. Burdenko, and also about A. Ya.Evdokimov, A.A. Tsvetaev and others, who headed GMMD, etc. for the first time.