[The organizational and methodological bases of medical reconnaissance in extreme situations]. / Organizatsionno-metodicheskie osnovy meditsinskoi razvedki v chrezvychainykh situatsiiakh.

The article deals with the process of medical reconnaissance organisation in various extreme situations, including local wars and armed conflicts. The authors suggest that there is a definite need in special units and mobile sanitary-epidemiological groups, trained and equipped for the task. They also recommend that these units should be formed up in the deployable medical set-ups.

[The estimation of the epidemiological hazard in areas of extreme situations]. / K otsenke épidemiologicheskoi opasnosti v zonakh chrezvychainykh situatsii.

Epidemiological threat's level evaluation is a necessary component in the epidemiological diagnosis. The existing methodologies include complicated mathematical calculations with the participation of mathematicians and statisticians. The authors have elaborated a simple and easy method for epidemiological threat assessment of an extreme situation to make a precise and reliable forecast of adequate measures for antiepidemiological defence of troops and civil population in the areas of local wars and armed conflicts.

[A modern equipment package for conducting the thorough sanitary decontamination of personnel]. / Sovremennyi tekhnicheskii kompleks dlia provedeniia polnoi sanitarnoi obrabotki lichnogo sostava.

The authors inform that a new mobile personnel decontamination equipment site has been developed for a field sanitary treatment of troops and their battle uniforms at the same time. The authors prove the necessity of its development and provide full information on its items. They also present a comparative analysis of domestic and foreign sanitary sites that puts the new one to the best advantages as an example of a new generation of sanitary equipment for decontamination and shower of personnel. The site has been recommended to the medical service of the army to replace obsolete sites, like DDA-66, DDA-3 and DDP-2.