The article analyzes the contribution of physicians of German origin in the development of the medical sphere in state and private mining districts in the Urals in the first half of the 19th century. Their active involvement to the service in this distant region in the period under consideration is due to the escalating shortage of qualified specialists in the conditions of the new medical system's emergence for persons who served directly to the state. The author identified 37 such doctors:

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... Russian Germans, mainly from the Baltic provinces, and the subjects of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and natives of several German states. This was the fifth part of all doctors who served in the mining plants of the Urals in the first half of the 19th century, which is basically more than the representation of other foreigners. This ratio shows the leading positions of the German medical school at that time. The author systematized the materials on the number, level of education, and motives for admission to the service of doctors of German origin, its place and conditions. M. G. Wolf and K. A. Time made the most successful administrative careers, became medical inspectors of the Ural Mining Board. For three decades, they methodically carried out departmental control of the medical sphere of the region's private mining plants, sought to fulfill the requirements of legislation. The diverse, including administrative, activity of physicians of German origin made a significant contribution to the process of medicalization in the Urals, which is part of a more global process of social modernization.