[The tragedy of starving population of the central regions of Russia in 1920-1922].

On the basis of archival documents and literary sources the importance of nutrition factors determining the importance of its influence on the level of demographic indicators and morbidity during the famine of the 1920s in the Samara Gubernia is demonstrated. The contribution of foreign public organizations in saving people from starvation is presented.

[The Personnel Potential of Civilian Health Care in the Rsfsr During the First Period of the Great Patriotic War].

The article, presents, on the basis of archive materials for official use, the analysis of the state of civil health care in RSFSR in the first period of the great Patriotic war. The staffing of institutions with physicians and nursing medical personnel, the load of medical personnel in absolute terms and in comparison, with pre-war period are studied. The absence of fundamental differences in the personnel rotation in Moscow and Leningrad, despite different military and economic conditions is demonstrated. The article describes the status of staff in nursery establishments of the system of motherhood and infancy protection in the Kuibyshev Oblast.