Scientific regiment of SSAU

Stavropol State Agrarian University has joined the All-Russian campaign "Scientific Regiment", which is carried out by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

"Scientific Regiment" is a series of publications about students and teachers, about scientists who, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, brought the Victory closer with their military and labor feat.

The main goal of the project is the patriotic education of young people and the preservation of the memory of the Great Victory. Thousands of students, teachers, workers and employees of institutes volunteered to go to the front. Their memory must live on!

Author: D.A. Elagina, 2nd year student of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Service and Tourism

The feat of fathers and children during the Great Patriotic War has always deserved special respect from the students, staff and teachers of the Stavropol State Agrarian University and became the basis for the patriotic education of young people. The Great Patriotic War hit our country suddenly. She maimed and claimed the lives of a huge number of people. And no matter how much time passes, this topic is still as relevant as it was more than half a century ago.

This article is devoted to the events that took place at the Stavropol State Agrarian University during the Great Patriotic War, where by 1940 the teaching staff already consisted of 53 people, including 1 doctor and 15 candidates of science. The Great Patriotic War brought great changes to the lives of all Soviet citizens, the work of scientific centers, universities and institutes, to the future plans of both teachers and students. Already in the first days, weeks, months of the war, a significant part of the volunteers went to the front. Teachers and students, employees fought on different fronts of the Great Patriotic War - on the Western and Don, Ukrainian and Transcaucasian, in battles near Stalingrad, Kursk, Kharkov, in the battle for Berlin, participated in the Far Eastern operations of the Soviet Army. Platoons, companies, battalions were organized from the staff of teachers and students. In the autumn of 1941, the 343rd division was formed at the Stavropol State Agrarian University, which passed a heroic path from Rostov to Prague.

On June 22, 1941, a rally took place in the courtyard of the Institute. It was opened by the head of the department of Marxism-Leninism I.K. Belomestnykh. Speaking of the perfidious attack of fascist Germany, he turned to the heroic history of our Motherland: the victories over the Germans on Lake Peipus, near Narva and Vyborg. In the speeches of the director of the institute G.Kh. Alafinov, teachers and students, in the resolution adopted at the rally, there was a readiness to immediately come out in defense of the Fatherland. And the very next day, many of the rally participants turned to the military registration and enlistment office with a request to send them to the front as volunteers. At the beginning of the war, the main educational building was commissioned as a hospital, the largest and most well-equipped in the city. He was served by more than 400 specially trained doctors, nurses and nurses. A hard fate befell many students and teachers of the university during the occupation. Among them, Dora Karabut, a student of the zootechnical faculty, carried out reconnaissance work behind enemy lines as part of a partisan detachment. In December 1942, she was betrayed by a policeman in the village of Arzgir, was tortured and shot in the Nazi dungeons of the city of Budyonnovsk. Among the victims of the genocide was Margarita Karlovna Krymskaya, candidate of biological sciences, professor, head of the department, who was shot along with her six-year-old son.

In early 1966, Associate Professor A. Ya. Antykov took the initiative to create a memorial plaque inscribed with the names of teachers, students, workers and employees of the Stavropol Agricultural Institute who fell in the battles for the Motherland against Nazi Germany in 1941-1945. So, by the beginning of the 1971-1972 academic year, an obelisk "Eternal glory to the students, teachers and employees of the Stavropol Agricultural Institute who fell on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was installed in the courtyard of our university. All teachers and students took part in its creation. The opening of the monument took place in October 1971. At the rally dedicated to this event, words of deep gratitude to the fallen soldiers were heard. Land brought from Mamaev Kurgan, Sapun Mountain and Marukh Pass was assigned to the monument. From that day on, the modest obelisk reminds everyone who enters the courtyard of the university who conquered the world for us.

It is unbearable to remember the events of those terrible years, but we must ... must keep it in memory, pass it on to our children and grandchildren. In order not to forget at what cost peace is achieved, in order to appreciate what we have, and to believe in ourselves and the future of our Motherland! 

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