Sanbat in the Kuban

North Caucasian front, lower Kuban in the area of the village. Urma, June 11-12, 1943, the location of the 472nd Medical Battalion of the 389th Infantry Division of the 37th Army of the North Caucasian Front for the seriously wounded. Exterior and interior views of the operating tent on the river bank. 2nd rank military doctor, surgeon - candidate of medical sciences Valentin Viktorovich Tomashevich, 3rd rank military doctor Avani Mamedovich Diasamidze, senior surgical nurse Tatyana Pavlovna Kaplunova and military assistant Nadezhda Konstantinovna Bondarenko are operating on Red Army soldier Pyotr Nikitovich Morgunova. Soldiers carry the operated Red Army soldier P.N. Morgunov on a stretcher, carry him out of the operating tent. Nurse Lyubov Ilinichna Zharova (in the frame only a hand writing a note) writes on behalf of PN Morgunov a note of gratitude with the following text: “DEAR DOCTOR AND SISTERS THANK YOU FOR MY LIFE. SAVE MY ADDRESS AND COME, ALWAYS, IN THE SEMIPALATINSKY REGION, KIROVSKY DISTRICT, BELOTSERKOVSKY MINE. " A nurse accompanies a wounded soldier on crutches, who climbs onto a barge on a thrown board. Two soldiers carry a stretcher with a wounded Red Army soldier P.N. Morgunov to a barge, carefully set a stretcher with a wounded man on a barge, nurse T.P. Zharova makes sure that the wounded man is comfortable lying. A nurse walks with a bouquet of flowers, approaches the wounded on a barge disguised with branches, passes the bouquet to one of the wounded. The wounded on the barge. Surgeon V.V. Tomashevich says something to the wounded before sending the barge. A barge, disguised by branches, with the wounded on board, is sailing along the river. A nurse sits on a barge next to a seriously wounded soldier, warding off flies and mosquitoes from him. Nurse Natalia Iosifovna Garbuzova carries mugs of milk, handing them over to the wounded Red Army soldiers. The soldiers are drinking milk. Nurse Nina Khacheturovna Muradyan rolls a cigarette for Lieutenant Boris Rotsky, wounded in the arm, gives a light.

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1943