Contribution of faculty members from the Department of General Hygiene at Saratov State Medical Institute to development and implementation of preventive measures during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945

The preventive activities of the Department of General Hygiene of the Saratov Medical Institute during the Great Patriotic war is present here. During this period, the head of the Department of General Hygiene was professor Lev Los. In addition to educational activities, employees of the department took part in sanitary and epidemiological measures, conducted active scientific work, taught sanitary knowledge to the civilian population, participated in agricultural work, and the activities of self-defense teams (fire, emergency response, sanitary, chemical, and law enforcement). The activities carried out by the faculty of the department during the difficult years of the Great Patriotic war played an invaluable role in the development of strategic preventive sanitary-hygienic and anti-epidemic measures to effectively combat infectious and non-infectious diseases of the population.