Rural health care and health centres network in Western Siberia under the influence of modernization processes (the late XIX - first quarter of the XX centuries)

The article observes the changes in the development of the rural health care and the health centres network in the region, studies the problems of health care, describes the medical service density in the West Siberian villages. The author concludes that by the 1930-s there was reduction of disparities between urban and rural areas in the health care development as manifestation of modernization process in the social sphere.