The article dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the establishment of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, the first independent department and clinic of field surgery. It describes the work of the department employees who were sent as medical advisers to the so-called <<hot spotso in a variety of countries at different times (Kyuss LA., Dolinin V.A., Volikov A.A., Antipenko VS., Kornilov V.A., Felitsyn L.N., Zakurdaev V.E., Chernov E. V., Alekseev A. V and the others).