Том 1, № 3 (2025)

Knowledge of tactical medicine basics is important as the medical service of motorized infantry and tank platoons and companies is represented by medical infantrymen assistants, medical instructors, and, at best, a paramedic. Combats are dynamic and multifaceted, and every soldier is supposed to have the skills to approach the wounded in battle, provide them with first aid, carry them out of the battlefield, and be able to remove the wounded from armored vehicles. The review examines laws and regulations of the Russian Federation on first aid; Medical Support, Fundamentals of Medical Support for Troops (Forces), and Military Medical Training discipline (module) course outlines; tactical medicine guidelines developed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation; open source articles analyzing and summarizing the experience in providing first aid and medical care during the special military operation. The paper identifies special aspects of teaching and studying the Medical Support academic discipline in military educational institutions where it is not a core subject. In addition, the knowledge and reasonable decisions of graduates of such universities will save the lives of many wounded and sick people during current and future military conflicts. The paper focuses on the experience gained by the medical service during the special military operation.

The contemporary higher education system is focused on improving the health and fitness of students. The current system of physical education at the educational institution (St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation) is often focused on the regulatory framework and does not fully meet the interests of students, leading to a formalistic approach to the subject. Thus, the search for and implementation of new, more effective methods, such as various strength training formats, is an extremely urgent task for improving the students’ health and increasing their engagement. Strength training is a highly effective tool to address these tasks, but its potential has not been fully explored within the context of compulsory university curriculum. However, the personalized, varied strength training has proven effective for integration into the physical education curriculum at the university. A variety of strength training options will both improve students’ physical fitness and contribute to a long-term interest in strength-based fitness training, which is the foundation for a healthy lifestyle in the future.

Technology advances have revolutionized the process of producing scientific texts, from the era of manuscripts to contemporary artificial intelligence solutions. The authors conducted a historical and methodological analysis of the development of scientific writing and communications, highlighting key stages, including the printing press, typewriters, personal computers, office and special software packages, web tools, cloud services, optical character recognition (OCR) technologies, artificial intelligence tools, etc. The study compares the time spent on basic scientific operations in different eras (writing and editing; mathematical analysis; visualization; searching for and processing sources, and preparing the reference list). Automation drastically reduces the labor intensity of routine tasks, but the human role remains decisive; problem and hypothesis formulation, data interpretation, and responsible authoring cannot be delegated to algorithms. The paper discusses the information explosion phenomenon, which means that the growth of available knowledge bases increases processing capacity, but is associated with impaired long-term memorizing and the risks of mindless reading. The empirical outcome was a consistent technology timeline and a comparative workload table showing a multiple intensification of the research cycle. The conclusion is made about the auxiliary, catalytic role of artificial intelligence with the unconditional priority of human thinking.

Reasonable pharmacological support for elite athletes is an important issue not yet addressed. Therefore, it is required to find advanced approaches and means to boost physical and functional performance during regular physical activity. It is well known that active sports change the functional performance associated with adaptation to physical and psycho-emotional stress and, consequently, the degree of stress on regulatory mechanisms. Thus, there is a need to develop new, more advanced medical and biological technologies to enhance sports training. Scholars distinguish five different classes of performance-enhancing agents, including nutritional, physiological, psychological, pharmacological, and biomechanical. To enhance training performance, both physiological methods and pharmaceuticals are used. However, it should be noted that the drugs can also have adverse effects, primarily on the central nervous system, metabolism, heart, liver, kidneys, blood, and the human hormonal system. Reasonable pharmacological support for elite athletes is important. The review presents contemporary data on the means used to correct the body’s adaptive mechanisms, replenish expended energy, and restore performance during regular physical stress.

There is a period in the history of the Military Medical Academy library that has been unmeritedly overlooked by historians: the era of so-called developed socialism, which flourished in the 1970s. However, in contemporary realities of a generational crisis of values and an active search for traditional moral and spiritual values, understanding the Soviet experience may be very useful. To adequately understand that period, it is important to remember that in the USSR, libraries, including university libraries, were a key ideological institution. The criterion for selecting library directors was their active social life position. One of the most prominent representatives of the post-war generation of library directors is Alexander Monakhov, who devoted his life to military medicine and the Military Medical Academy. For many years, he worked in the Academy’s educational department, including as its deputy head. He sought to promote the development of the best possible forms and methods of organizing and planning the educational process and use of various advanced teaching methods and tools. After retiring, he headed the library for 11 years, from 1970 to 1981. Monakhov belonged to a group of library directors who could quite appropriately be called fighters on the ideological front. He attached equal importance to the library in the training of professionals and the formation of their personality, values, ideals, behavioral standards and imperatives, and their attitude to their profession and patients. The Academy’s library under Monakhov had a high profile. It was always the center of academic life. The library had a collegial advisory body—a council—that included professors and heads of most departments and hospitals. Recognizing the growing demand for cultural, educational, historical, patriotic, and moral activities, library staff are attempting to revive the library’s ideological function through book exhibitions, presentations, and behind-the-scenes and club events. In this, we can rely on the experience of Soviet generations.