Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot161310.32687/0869-866X-2025-33-2-318-323НеопределенThe sanitary surveillance of industrial production of foodstuff in blocked Leningrad (1941–1943)TverdyukovaE Dtverdyukova@spbu.ruThe Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The St. Petersburg State University” of the Government of the Russian Federation, 199034, St. Petersburg, RussiaThe Federal State Budget Institution “The St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences” of the Minobrnauka of Russia, 197110, St. Petersburg. Russia290420253321005202510052025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article covers, on the basis of archival documents, one of the little-studied aspects of the Leningrad Blockade the activities of the State Sanitary Inspectorate for supervision over output of food products at industrial enterprises of the city (19411943). The data on its structure, personnel, under controlled network of enterprises, methods of work are presented. The specificity of functioning of the State Sanitary Inspection in conditions of Blockade was autonomy from the Republican and the Union management of the sanitary service. All decisions were taken from local daily needs and in contact with city authorities. One of the main tasks of sanitary food physicians in the blockaded city was to search for substitutes of food products and as much as possible to preserve and to use defective food products and at the same time to prevent surge of gastrointestinal diseases. With the purposes of that, workers of the State Sanitary Inspectorate carried on regular laboratory tests of food samples, authorized using in production certain surrogates and participated in development of the Temporary Technical Specifications for production of industrial enterprises. The study demonstrated that methods of work of the Leningrad State Sanitary Inspectorate (team approach to examinations, day-and-night duties of physicians in city and districts sanitary inspections, regular meetings with superiors and senior inspectors of food groups and economic executives) justified themselves in conditions of Blockade and deficiency of food resources.</p>LeningradBlockadefood industryState Sanitary Inspectionsanitary and food supervisionfoodЛенинградблокадапищевая промышленностьГосударственная санитарная инспекциясанитарно-пищевой надзорпродовольствие1.Khudyakova N. D. Transportation for blockaded Leningrad and the front (1941–1943). Klio. 2013;5(77):6–67 (in Russian).2.Gavrilova O. A. “Blockade banquets”: on the history of rationed supplies to Leningrad in 1942. Transactions of the History Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. 2015;(21):415–20 (in Russian).3.Sobolev G. L., Khodjakov M. V. Food Commission of the Military Council of the Leningrad Front in 1942. Modern History of Russia. 2016;1(15):8–21 (in Russian).4.Sherstneva E. V. Sanitary organization in the USSR in the 1930s. Bulletin of the National Research Institute of Public Health named after N. A. Semashko. 2017;(1):328–31 (in Russian).5.Prigodich N. D. The food supply of besieged Leningrad and the evacuation of the population by using aviation in the autumn of 1941. RUDN Journal of Russian History. 2020;19(2):320–9 (in Russian).6.Khodyakov M. V. Confectionery production in besieged Leningrad. 1941–1943. Noveyshaya istoriya Rossii. 2022;12(4):812–39 (in Russian).7.Komissarova L. P Sanitary organization of Leningrad. In: Medics and the blockade: a look through the years. Saint Petersburg: Medical Association of Siege-Bearers of the Heroic City of Leningrad; 1997. P. 64–9 (in Russian).8.Gorelova L. E., Serebryanny R. S., Yaremchuk O. V. The tragedy of starving population of the central regions of Russia in 1920–1922. Problemy social'noj gigieny, zdravooxraneniya i istorii mediciny. 2020;28(1):164–8 (In Russian).9.Tverdyukova E. D. Activity of Sanitary and Food Supervision in Leningrad during the years of the Great Patriotic War. In: The Great Patriotic War in the memory of generations. Saint Petersburg: Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University; 2015. P. 55–64 (in Russian).