THE PRE-SOVIET HEALTH CARE OF THE FAR EAST OF XX CENTURY: THE ARCHIVE MYSTIFICATIONS

<jats:p>The article compares the claims made by M. I. Barsukov and D. V. Pisarev, the authors of “The short report on sanitary organizations over Gubernias of the Far East and the project of establishment of new organizations in current [1924] year” with the results of carried out historical reconstruction of the pre-Soviet health care of the Far East of the 20th century. The reconstruction revealed a complex landscape of the medical sanitary infrastructure of the given region. Because of the comparison the gaps were uncovered in the Bolshevik narrative of the past, zones of the default, the exaggerations and the deliberate distortions of reality in the archival text, which has the status of office work document.</jats:p>