The paper presented the results of surgical treatment of 277 patients with bleeding penetrating gastroduodenal ulcers. Gastric location of the ulcer was revealed in 52 patients and duodenal location in 225 ones. More commonly used resections of the stomach according to a Billroth-I method or suprapyloric resections versus the resection of the stomach according to method Billroth-II when used in the patients with gastric location of the ulcers helped to reduce the mortality from 23.1 to 0%. The wide usage of organ-sparing operations combined with vagotomy reduced the lethal outcomes of the disease from 13 to 5.5% versus the resection of the stomach. The rate of bleeding relapses in the early postoperative period which followed the suture of penetrating gastroduodenal ulcers was 25.9%. The dissection of ulcers or their elimination from the alimentary tract could be regarded as the methods of choice in case of palliative treatment. Surgical treatment of penetrating gastroduodenal ulcers should be performed prior to bleedings. Planned operative intervention should be performed in patients with deep gastric ulcer with diameter of 1.5 cm and more and pyloroduodenal ulcers with diameter of more than 1 cm.