The academic staff and students of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute in the first months of the Great Patriotic War (based on materials from the St. Petersburg archives)

The article reviews how the academic staff and students acted during the most difficult period of the Great Patriotic War. The Institute was reorganized to a military regime of work, students and teachers were called up to the active army. Curricula and programs were restructured. New algorithms were developed for interaction between students and the administration of the Institute.