Financing Evacuation Hospitals During the Soviet-Finnish War (on Materials of the Ural Military District)

Abstract

This article first analyzes the evacuation hospitals funding from the state budget during the Soviet- Finnish war. The peculiarities of financing the creation of hospitals in the mobilization period, the work of financial departments of hospitals, the wounded and provide employees pay, pay business expenses, the role of sponsorship in the supply of evacuation hospitals. The importance of municipal government in financing the evacuation hospitals. It is noted that under-funding of civil institutions is a constant companion in evacuation hospitals during the Soviet-Finnish War, and the difficulty increases with time. Appeal to the declassified documents, military medical services, as well as the Soviet government allowed to raise the question about the reasons for such a situation. Considered the factors that impede the supply of evacuation hospitals in the early 1940: the repeated recalculation of salaries, depreciation of buildings, conversion and changes in staff structure of some of the military-medical institutions. It tests the hypothesis that it is trying to save the People’s Commissariat of Finance on the content of evacuation hospitals have led to a further deterioration of their financial situation. To test the significance of the above factors are calculated rate of clotting hospital network in the Ural Military District, as they should have been according to the forecast of the Minister of Finance A. G. Zverev. Comparison of forecast indicators with statistics Ural hospitals in the second quarter of 1940 showed a fifty percent understating their actual funding needs. increase in the number of vacant beds in hospitals are also calculated. This is normal during the dissolution of the hospitals, was not taken into account in the forecast of the minister. Presented in the article, the evidence suggests that not only random factors influence the process of financing the evacuation of hospitals, the government had significant errors.