Based on archival research carried out at the Branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (military medical documents, St. Petersburg), the article reconstructs the history of Kislovodsk’s hospitals No. 2002 and No. 5397 located on the territory of the sanatorium named after A.M. Gorky. This work continues the same authors’ research summarized in 2012 in the collection of articles «Sanatorium named after Gorky RAS in Kislovodsk (1923–2008)». The evacuation hospital No. 2002 for 800 beds was set up in July 1941 and disbanded on August 9, 1942 on the eve of the occupation of Kislovodsk by German troops. The head of evacuation hospital No. 2002 was the doctor Adelina Lvovna Zlatkovskaya (born in 1901). A picture of the life of the hospital in 1941–1942 was recreated by Vitaly Borisovich Karlinsky, a resident of Be'er Sheva (Israel), who ended up in this place with his family as an eight-year-old boy. Vitaly's mother, Rosalia Yakovlevna Karlinskaya, worked in the hospital as a surgical nurse. The archive contains a list of doctors – heads of departments and residents of hospital No. 2002 for 1941–1942, which includes 20 people. The evacuation hospital No. 5397 for 450 beds was set up on January 15, 1943 after the liberation of Kislovodsk by the Red Army and disbanded on October 1, 1944. In October 1944, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR made a decision to re-establish the Gorky sanatorium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The head of evacuation hospital No. 5397 was Dmitry Filippovich Poleshchuk (born in 1903), Evgeny Pavlovich Rozhdestvensky (born in 1900) and Alexei Kondratievich Kolesnikov (born in 1900). The article contains the texts of a number of archival documents about the works of evacuation hospital No. 5397 in 1943–1944.
sanatorium named after A.M. Gorky in Kislovodsk; Great Patriotic war; evacuation hospital No. 2002; evacuation hospital No. 5397; Branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (military medical documents, St. Petersburg).