as a result of the bombing from July to September 1942 were destroyed buildings at the railway stations of Sochi, Loo and Matsesta. But even this could not prevent hospitalization defending the strategically important Caucasian direction of soldiers who were delivered to the salvation for many of the Matsesta treatments and bathing in the sea.
the town has worked to restore the health of our soldiers. According to historians, in General, during the war years the percentage of discharged wounded soldiers in Sochi hospitals was higher than the national average. For the big contribution to Victory in 1980, Sochi was awarded the order of Patriotic war I degree.
to learn how to forge a big Win in a small town, the correspondent “RG” went to the Museum of history of Sochi, which is already 75 years old cherishes the memories of contemporaries about the life in the rear.
“Rations… Now this word began to be forgotten, – wrote A. Komarov and I. Maksimov in the story “a Plate of soup” (a collection of “summaries not reported…”, stored in the archive). – And the youth it can be said, and did not know. But those who survived the war remember and probably never forget the hard food standards. What a truly outstanding skill was required cooks to prepare food for the wounded, not having even the ordinary potato!
the Railway Tuapse was cut by the Germans, and Sukhumi is still being completed. Food in Sochi were often delivered intermittently. Happened, and the food was without salt, onion and meat. And in the chambers, the thousands of wounded, helpless and often hungry. Call a soldier to his nurse or nurse, in a half whisper asked:
– SIS, the soup would be enjoyed.
there were also finicky. In the hospital N 2124 once treated Uzbek – a big guy with broken legs.
– Semolina – no! Shrapnel – no! tried to hide it from myself a bowl of hot barley porridge.
– And what about you? – asked the waitress.
Red tomato! answered Uzbek.
And that’s in January! Barely persuaded him to replace tomatoes pickles. Such requests would put the hospital chefs and caterers in the wall.”
“And then decided to get a small-time farms, – the authors continue. – Beds with onions, carrots and potatoes appeared on the flower beds and glades resort Park “Riviera”. Workers, however, are not enough, and those who led these farms, over time, were not considered. Helped staff hospitals. Prior to duty or after work, they hurried to the gardens and plantations planting seedlings, weeding or watering. But the wounded began to receive a tangible boost to the table, and that compensated for all the hassle. Your vegetables, onions-a feather, dill… Fresh, straight from the garden!”
In the archive of the Museum of history of Sochi remained yellow, cracked in some places large sheets of notebooks with pictures (hand drawn sketches) collected fruits and��Noah information about the harvest. For example, for more than three years of existence of farms with only one local hospital at the station Loo collected 426 quintals of different vegetables and 18.4 – potatoes and sweet potatoes, 82 – grains and legumes, and 158,2 – fruits.
When there was nothing to take from farms, rescued individual infield hospital staff.
Once delivered in the Sochi hospital 2095 N the anti-tank Riflemen V. Romanov, seriously wounded in a fierce battle near Novorossiysk, jokingly asked the nurse on duty leads the chicken broth, being sure that, in addition, a por – tion of barley porridge, waiting for nothing. And when it was lunch, he could not believe his eyes: Lida brought him a whole bowl of excellent rich soup with a large piece of chicken. Where is the bird? It turned out that the nurse in the market bartered a chicken for his last dress.
“After the war I was several times in Sochi, trying to find my dear sister Lida and give her the most fashionable dress, – says the veteran. – Unfortunately, we were not successful. And I still can’t forgive myself of that joke”.
the hospitals were organized special teams to collect in the mountain forests of chestnuts and walnuts, garlic and mushrooms, wild cherries and pears.
Dozens of tons of “forest heaven” gave up on hospital food. Helped to collect wild fruits and fruits wounded.
the Team recovering from the hospital N 2133 only seven days gathered in the woods for two and a half tons of chestnuts, a half ton of nuts and hundred kilograms of apples.
– the General collection on the subject of the great Patriotic war has more than five thousand items, – says chief curator of the Museum of history of Sochi Elena Grishchenko. – Pride of place is occupied by archival documents, letters from the front memoirs of doctors and nurses, hospitals and, of course, war veterans. Unique exhibits are letters from the front the Sochi surgeons, for example, Nikolai Agapov. His granddaughter recently donated to the Museum original materials, including photographs of wounded soldiers, which made her famous grandfather. With many patients Agapov warm relations and began a friendly correspondence.
the Chairman of Sochi city Council during the war A. F. Belous recalled: “the Black sea all the time was controlled by German submarines and aircraft. At Tuapse was fighting, in Krasnaya Polyana – fighting, and in hospitals – 30 thousand wounded. There was a problem of supply. The population of the city for two weeks did not receive bread. All stocks went to the wounded. Rescued us chestnuts and nuts. Organized teams for harvesting the fruit.
In those difficult years for our country Sochi was blocked rail line, which ended in Adler. For Sochi with great difficulty was about��gruzina the first open platform with flour. The platform arrived in the night from the first to the second may 1942″.
the Wounded were necessary and vitamins. So, in the newspaper “Krasnoe Znamya” was published was developed by cooks hospital 2132 N way of getting vitamin C from pine needles. And the moss from the trees of the yew-boxwood grove was collecting the wounded for the filler cushions, and also for disinfecting wounds.
according to urban legends, the wounded in hospitals, and later guests in nursing homes, fed and Dolphin meat. In the opened a few years after the great Patriotic war the by-products plant of the Sochi meat-packing plant treated Dolphin skins for the needs of industrial enterprises.
First Deputy, and then Chairman of the Executive Committee of the city Council (according to the current mayor) of Sochi Peter Bazhanov considered Dolphin fishing barbarism and has even appealed to Moscow with calls to ban the destruction of this highly organized mammal.Although in response he heard accusations of “lack of understanding of the challenges facing the government”, soon the prey of dolphins is stopped.
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By the first of January 1945, the number of hospitals in Sochi was reduced from 37 to 32, and the number of deployed beds in them – from 16,1 thousand to 13.95 thousand. Through the hospitals of Sochi from the fifth of August 1941 on the first of July 1945, it took 335 955 wounded and sick soldiers, many of them (over 100 thousand) fully regained his health, was discharged to the front and returned to the army. Operated 29.6 percent, 14.5 percent received a blood transfusion. Unfortunately, 6834 wounded doctors were unable to save – they died in hospitals.
