The analysis of normative legal documents regulating the activity of the all Russian service of disaster medicine is carried out. It is defined that VSMK functionally unites departmental medical forces and means, including service of medicine of catastrophes of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation which basic functional units are the non standard formations formed in the military medical organizations not only from among the military personnel, but also from among persons of the civil personnel. It is noted that the civil law framework for the involvement of medical workers to perform tasks on the organization of medical and sanitary support of emergency situations, especially extraterritorially, revealed the existing shortcomings in the legal and organizational and methodological documents governing their activities, and allowed to formulate proposals for their resolution.