Troop tests of perspective samples of technical equipment for the departments of the medical service of joint force grouping of the Arctic zone

The article provides an analysis of physiographic factors influencing on not only healthcare professionals’ activity, but also departments of the medical service of joint force grouping of the Russian Arctic zone. The results of work performed by the research team of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry in the winter expedition to the Kola Peninsula are given. The authors performed an analysis and identified the possibility of construction, on the basis of the test samples of military equipment, of evacuation transport and mobile military medical facilities to equip the arctic crews, investigated declared characteristics and possibilities of the military operation of medical equipment samples, presented by the industry companies under natural and climatic conditions of the Arctic.

the Arctic zone, medical units, sanitary evacuation transport, mobile complex, equipment, habitability