140 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN MILITARY REHABILITATION CENTER NAMED AFTER G.A. ALBRECHT

Abstract

The 140th anniversary of the Albrecht Federal Scientific Center of Rehabilitation of the Disabled Persons is celebrated in March 2023. On March 5, 1883, the Military Department of the Russian Empire issued an order approving the regulations of the Military Council on the organization of the Mariinsky Shelter for amputated soldiers. Creation of such an institution was the beginning of the opening of new areas of rehabilitation and created prerequisites for the formation of enterprises and institutions that dedicated their activities to assisting disabled people. It was in 1916 when G.A. Albrecht started reformation of prosthetic care for disabled veterans at the Mariinsky shelter. Thanks to the activities of professor Albrecht, the Mariinsky shelter was transformed into a
scientific and methodological center managing the entire organization of prosthetic practice. During the Great Patriotic War, the activities of the Institute did not stop and the remaining staff, headed by doctor B.A. Betekhtin, continued active work on providing special surgical and prosthetic care to the wounded solgiers. In 1983 clinics of the Leningrad Research Institute of Prosthetic sand the Leningrad Research Institute for the Examination of the Ability to work and the Organization of work of the disabled were united. Today, the successor of the noble cause of the Mariinsky shelter is the Albrecht Federal Scientific Center of Rehabilitation of the Disabled — the undisputed leader in solving diverse issues of complex rehabilitation of disabled people not only with diseases and defects of themusculoskeletal system, but also with disorders of the central nervous system. Between the date of the formation of the Mariinsky shelter and present days lies a long and difficult path of formation and development of the rehabilitation system in the Russian Federation, primarily for disabled people due to combat traumas.