The Donor Movement During the Great Patriotic War (Based on the Materials of the Kuibyshev, Penza and Saratov Regions).
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.004
Abstract
During the war years, nationwide movements to help the front and hospitals developed in the rear regions of the country. One of them was blood donation. The paper examines the blood donation movement in the Middle Volga region. Based on the analysis of documents from regional archives, local periodicals, and research literature, the author comes to the conclusion that it can be called a female movement, since most donors were women. Many of them refused the monetary reward they were entitled to. They asked to transfer it to the defense fund, for the construction of military equipment and weapons. The blood of donors saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of wounded soldiers and officers of the Red Army.
About the Author
O. S. Levina
Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Levina Oksana Sergeevna — a Second-Year Postgraduate Student, The Institute of History and International Relations, the Department of National History and Historiography
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Levina O.S. The Donor Movement During the Great Patriotic War (Based on the Materials of the Kuibyshev, Penza and Saratov Regions). Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(3(96)):40-48. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.004
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