The activity of the pharmaceutical school of the Military Medical (Medico-Surgical) Academy in various historical periods is presented to ensure the state interest and national security. Scientists and employees of the Academy have been training highly qualified pharmaceutical personnel for different levels of national health care for more than two centuries, and fundamental and applied research is conducted to create new drugs and medical devices, as well as organizing the provision of medical equipment to troops (forces). The role of the pharmaceutical profile department of the Academy includes textbook and teaching aid development, regulatory legal framework improvement that governs medical equipment provision, military units and military medical organizations in modern socio-economic conditions, and innovative sample creation of complete, medical, mobile, and special medical equipment. A brief description of dissertations in the field of pharmacy by the teaching staff and students of the Academy, which had a significant impact on the development of national health care, is given. The prospects for the introduction of advanced educational technologies for training cadets and students, residents, and masters, as well as researching within the framework of national projects in various scientific pharmaceutical specialties, are shown.

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The study presents the medical service activities in organizing the provision of troops (forces) with medical equipment during the operation to restore constitutional order in the Chechen Republic. To provide medical support to federal troops (forces), appropriate groupings of forces and medical services were created, functioning in three isolated areas. Thanks to the operational and professional work of military pharmaceutical specialists, a medical supply system was formed, involving the three main medical warehouses of the North Caucasus Military District. The paper also showed the work of medical supply units and institutions to provide federal troops (forces) with medical equipment. Issues of the functioning of the medical supply system, optimization of the composition of individual medical equipment of military personnel of the federal troops (forces), and peculiarities of storing medical equipment in the field were successfully resolved by involving the faculty of the Department of Military Medical Supply and Pharmacy of the Military Medical Academy of S.M. Kirov. Moreover, the paper presented the features of personnel provision and stages of medical evacuation with individual and group medical equipment, bags and sets of first aid, premedical, and medical kits. The system of supplying medical equipment to troops (forces) for special-purpose medical units operating in combat areas, evacuation centers, and military hospitals of the North Caucasus Military District was analyzed. Based on the medical support experience for the united grouping of troops (forces) during the operation to restore the constitutional order in the Chechen Republic, ways to improve the provision of complete equipment and technical medical service are proposed.

The activities of providing medical equipment to the troops (forces) participating in the operation to force Georgia to peace in South Ossetia (August 712, 2008) are presented. The functioning features of medical supply institutions and units on the eve and after the invasion of the military contingents of Georgia into South Ossetia are shown. The chronology of the activities of units and institutions of medical supply in the combat zone is outlined. The features of providing troops (forces) with medicines and blood products, disinfectants, and medical products are revealed. The purchase procedure, delivery routes, and creation of a reserve of the most demanded medical equipment, as well as the dispatch and repair of mobile medical equipment in preparation for an operation and during hostilities, have been determined. Owing to the professionalism of the medical service specialists of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at all levels of military healthcare, a grouping of forces and means were quickly developed, including medical supply units, and institutions. The functioning issues on the system of providing medical supply to troops (forces) are indicated, considering the negative impact of objective and subjective factors and the characteristics of measures to optimize it based on the experience of medical support for troops (forces) during the operation to force Georgia to peace. The implementation of research and development improve the regulatory legal framework relating to the use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in combat conditions and the creation of modern models of complete and standard equipment: first-aid kits, medical bags, medical equipment sets, and medical, and styling sets. In general, organizing the provision of medical equipment to troops (forces) during the operation to force Georgia to peace in South Ossetia allowed the involved institutions and medical supply units to cope with the tasks. Medical supply specialists of all levels of military healthcare selflessly performed their professional duties. With their efforts, military medical organizations, formations, and military units were almost completely provided with medical equipment, which contributed to the timely and complete provision of medical care and treatment of the wounded (injured).

Medical service activity in organizing medical equipment provisions to a limited contingent of Soviet troops (forces) during the armed conflict in Afghanistan (19791989) was presented. It was established that thanks to the medical supply specialists competent work in the most difficult conditions in the shortest possible time during the creation and build-up of Soviet troops (forces) grouping, a medical supply system adapted to the specific conditions of activity was formed, functioning in three, largely isolated areas. The work medical supply units and institutions to provide troops (forces) with medical equipment during the armed conflict is shown, as well as the problematic issues of their functioning, which were successfully resolved thanks to the involvement of students from the faculty of Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov. It reflects the priority tasks facing the medical supply system during the withdrawal period of a group of Soviet troops (forces) from Afghanistan, including providing local population assistance and its armed forces by transferring not only buildings, structures, medical service units, but also part of the medical property. The features of certain drug provision for the medical evacuation and military hospitals stages were presented, particularly injection and infusion solutions, as well as medical oxygen. The operational experience of the troops (forces) medical supply system during the armed conflict in Afghanistan was analyzed, and a number of contradictions were identified, which were later successfully eliminated. The medical supply specialists role was emphasized, whose professionalism and dedication made it was possible to solve all the tasks facing them in providing troops (forces) with medical equipment. In general, military units and military medical organizations that were part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops were provided with medical equipment within their actual need, which contributed to the timely provision of medical care and treatment of the wounded and sick, as well as maintaining a high level of the troops (forces) combat capability.