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AIM: To study frequency of 'hospital registry' operations in the polyclinics of the Central Federal district, to analyze previous experience of outpatient surgical care and to assess perspective directions of its development. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Over 48 million people who referred to polyclinics for medical care in 17 regions of Central Federal district for 6 years (2011-2016) were studied. RESULTS: Mean surgical activity in the polyclinics of Central Federal district is 4.5%. The annual number of 'hospital registry' operations does not exceed 150-200 (0.01%) for the entire district. Large outpatient surgery in Russia has evolved from active development to complete apathy and was almost always associated with health care reforming and attempts to reduce the volume of 24-hour in-patient surgical care. CONCLUSION: Advanced outpatient surgery is able to compensate routine in-hospital operations and to focus resources of these hospitals on the development of high-tech surgical care. It is necessary to change the insurance share of financing of patients operated in day surgical hospitals for successful development of 'large outpatient surgery'.