DISASTER MEDICINE No. 2 •2026

doi: 10.33266/2070-1004-2026-2

Review article

Providing Emergency Medical Care to Victims of Road Accidents in the Far North and Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

Goncharov S.F. 1,2, Baranov A.V. 3,4, Gudkov S.A. 3,5, Chepurnov N.V. 6, Mordovskiy E.A. 3, Starkov A.S. 1

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¹ State Research Center – Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russian Federation

2 Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation

3 Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation

4 Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation

5 N.A.Semashko Northern Medical Clinical Center, Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation

6 Komi Republican Clinical Hospital, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation

UDC 614.88:616-001:911.3(211-17)

P. 40-45

 

Summary. The aim of study is to identify and analyze the specifics of providing emergency medical care to victims of road traffic accidents (RTA) in the Far North and Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation in order to develop proposals for its improvement.
Materials and methods of the study – federal and regional regulatory legal documents governing road traffic safety and the strategic development of the country’s northern and Arctic territories, domestic and international scientific research focusing on the specifics of road traffic injury in the Far North and Arctic Zone areas and organizational approaches to providing emergency medical care to victims of road traffic accidents. The literature search was performed in the scientific electronic library systems: eLibrary, PubMed, and Scopus using the keywords: “road traffic injury”, “road traffic accident”, “emergency medical care”, “medical care”, “Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”, “Far North”. Scientific articles published in 2005–2025.
Results of study and their analysis. A thematic analysis of the problem of providing emergency medical care to RTA victims in the in the Far North and Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation as a territory with unique natural, climatic, and socio-economic conditions is presented. Problems in providing emergency medical care to victims of road traffic accidents during the pre-hospital period were identified, and possible solutions were proposed, taking into account the provisions of federal and regional regulatory legal documents. 

Keywords: Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation, cold injury, disaster medicine, emergency medical care, Far North, medical and sanitary consequences, polytrauma, Road Safety Strategy in the Russian Federation for 2025-2030, road traffic accident, road traffic injury, victims

For citation: Goncharov S.F., Baranov A.V., Gudkov S.A., Chepurnov N.V., Mordovskiy E.A., Starkov A.S. Providing Emergency Medical Care to Victims of Road Accidents in the Far North and Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation. Meditsina Katastrof = Disaster Medicine. 2026;2:40-45 (In Russ.). doi:10.33266/2070-1004-2026-2-40-45

 

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The material was received 30.01.26; the article after peer review procedure 09.04.26; the Editorial Board accepted the article for publication 16.06.26
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