The article examines the participation of employees and students of the Belarus State Institute of National Economy (currently the Belarus State Economic University) in the Great Patriotic War.
The article presents the history and activities of the Leningrad Institute of Soviet Trade named after F. Engels (currently part of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University) during the Great Patriotic War, compiled on the basis of the published siege diary of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Ivanov, the first director (rector) of the Institute. The article covers three stages: the beginning of the war and the siege; evacuation; return to Leningrad.
The article examines the siege of Leningrad and the participation of scientists in the defense of the city. It tells about the feat of employees of the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing, who at the cost of their lives preserved the world gene pool of cultivated plants.
This article provides a historical overview of the conditions for the formation and development of the State Reserve in the 1940–50-s and research in the field of long-term storage. The formation of the Rosrezerv scientific center is considered.
The article examines the participation of commodity scientists of the Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after M. Tugan-Baranovsky in the Great Patriotic War and their role in the development of the Department of Commodity Science of Food Products and the School of Scientific Commodity Science.
The article examines the participation of higher educational institutions in the defense of Kalinin (now Tver) during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945).
According to the author, this article will be interesting to those who are interested in our history and care about the feat of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. This article touches on the topic of the main nutrition during the Great Patriotic War. The characteristic features of bread preparation during the military operations of the Soviet Army, as well as in the harsh occupation conditions of the time of the siege of Leningrad, are highlighted and described. A comparison by the composition of frontline bread in different years of the Great Patriotic War is given. A description of one of the methods of preparing frontline bread, sandwiches on its basis, and carrot tea, which was very popular among the soldiers of the Red Army, is given. This article also vividly reflects the enormous importance of bread — a measure of life as a staple food during the war.
The article examines the specifics of food provision for residents of Leningrad during the siege. The standards for issuing food products on ration cards in different periods of the war years are given. It is established that the high mortality rate of the siege victims was mainly due to deaths from starvation and bombings.
The article examines the state of food supply for the population at the front and in the rear. It has been established that during the Great Patriotic War, the food supply system in the Soviet Union underwent significant changes under the influence of various factors: mobilization of resources for the needs of the front, destruction of agricultural infrastructure, worsening weather conditions, and other circumstances. The decrees of the USSR Government adopted in the first days of the war, which made it possible to ensure state regulation of the supply of food to the population, are indicated. The actual state of food supply for different categories of the population during the war years is shown.
The article examines the transformation of the economy of the Ryazan Region during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), paying attention to key sectors — agriculture and industry, as well as demographic changes. Based on archival documents and statistical data, it is shown how the region, originally an agricultural center, was forced to restructure its economic system to meet the needs of the front.
In 1943, the Department of Vitamin Production Technology was organized at the Moscow Technological Institute of Food Industry, designed to ensure the vitaminization of large-tonnage food products, with the purpose to restore the health of the population, undermined by the Great Patriotic War. The relevance of vitaminization was due to the discovery of the irreplaceable role of vitamins in the human body. Large volumes of vitamins were needed, which could only be obtained through the introduction of their chemical and bioorganic synthesis. It was necessary to design, build, and commission enterprises for the production of synthetic vitamins, and engineering and technical personnel for the designed enterprises was required as well. The war was still going on, but in 1943 the department was organized, successfully solving the tasks set for organizing large-scale vitamin production in the country for the vitaminization of mass-consumption food products and laying the foundation for a current direction of activity in scientific, research, and industrial practice in Russia and worldwide.
The article presents brief bibliographic reviews of scientists — veterans of the Great Patriotic War, written by eyewitnesses, relatives, and colleagues.
The article presents personal and parents’ memories about the difficult war years, as evidence of the hardships and deprivations that the Soviet people and its individual representatives endured during the tough war years in the territory occupied by the Germans and in the rear. The article places particular emphasis on the issue of food supply, however, sometimes some food products were used for life-saving purposes and not for their intended purpose.
The article is dedicated to the excursion route for the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the city of Voronezh. The issues of familiarizing tourists with the military historical streets of Voronezh and the historical past of heroic ancestors are considered. The criteria for choosing stops on the route have been defined; the time of excursionists has been optimized for maximum assimilation of information. Information is presented to young people involving them in the past and forming historical memory.
