They were the first (to mark the 105th anniversary of the creation of the Moscow Ambulance Station)

The article is devoted to the first documents of the decision of the Board of the medical and sanitary department of the Moscow Council of Workers’ Deputies on the organization of an ambulance station in Moscow. The data of archival materials on the formation of the first team of employees of the Moscow Ambulance Station, the memories of the first doctors about the organization and the first years of the team’s work, the difficulties faced by workers in providing emergency care, household issues are presented. The dynamic growth of the Ambulance Station staff is shown. The peculiarity of the visiting staff’s duties in the first years of work, the role of doctors in providing emergency care, and the formation of the driver’s staff is reflected. Eyewitnesses describe the working atmosphere, discipline, principles and fundamentals in providing emergency medical care to patients and injured, which were formed in the team with the arrival of Alexander Sergeevich Puchkov. The traditions that originated in the early years of the Moscow Ambulance Station are maintained today.