Veterinary Station

(1) a facility of the veterinary network that carries out therapeutic, prophylactic, and inspection measures in a particular territory, generally on a single kolkhoz, sovkhoz, or inhabited locality. Its main duties include veterinary care of the animals on the kolkhoz (sovkhoz) to which it is attached and of the cattle belonging to its farmers, manual workers, and office workers, as well as the setting of sanitary standards for the farm serviced. A veterinary station organizes and carries out measures to prevent and eradicate animal diseases, monitors the health of the livestock, treats sick animals, carries out disinfection on the farms and on plots belonging to citizens, and so on.

(2) A veterinary control facility on a state frontier that inspects imported and exported animals and products and raw materials of animal origin.

(3) A building on animal breeding farms used for the treatment of animals and for other special work.