[THE SOVIETIZATION OF TRANSPORT MEDICINE OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST (1917-1924). REPORT I. RUPTURE OR SUCCESSION?].

In June 1923, the head of department of railway health care in the Russian Far East submitted to the highest governing body of Bolshevist Far East report describing history and current state of health care on the Ussuri Railway. The author - doctor M. V. Michurin - held top position in medical hierarchy of post-Imperial Russia, since he was at the head of structure of strategically and economically important branch. Even in conditions of political instability, rulers tried hard to preserve and to enhance transport medicine. In his report, Michurin emphasized this succession, being unaware of ideology of tabula rasa of Soviet People's Commissariat of Health Care (Narkomzdrav). In the early 1920s, Commissioner N. A. Semashko insisted that Bolsheviks inherited ruins of health care. The article retraces conflict between Michurins evidences of succession with Bolshevist ideology of rupture.