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The research subject is the medical-sanitary service provided to the population in process of its evacuation (caused by the war) to the West-Siberian region. The main aim of the service was to avert the risk of an epidemiological catastrophe, which was more than real for the country at that period. Social statistics confirm that the overwhelming majority of infectious diseases occurred during the population movement in the places, where people gather - on the railways, the wharves, crowded transport. Taking into account that among those, who fled from the war, many people were sick, malnourished and affected by infections, the risk of a rapid contamination of the whole rear seemed inevitable. The article objective is to identify conditions and mechanisms of main activities in this sphere, to reveal the work scope and results through the comprehensive study of the issue. The main research focus is the sanitary transport inspection and sanitary control posts activities. Intrinsically their staff acquired emergency powers and major material and technical support. The author concludes that thanks to all actions performed and the emergency powers acquired by the sanitary control posts an efficient barrier against spreading infectious diseases in the transport was built. Transportation medical-sanitary conditions and at the evacuees destination locations were becoming more and more manageable. Providing the reliable and appropriate state of the rear area, including West Siberia, was of great importance for normalizing the whole subsequent medical-demographic situation in the country.